In 2010 it was used by WikiLeaks supporters on MasterCard and Visa sites for freezing WikiLeak’s payments in what was termed Operation Payback. Low Orbit Ion Cannon LOIC-hiveminds were used by In 2018 Anonymous used LOIV hiveminds to attack the websites of Church of Scientology because they legally wanted to take down YouTube videos (Project Chanology). Generally, the secondary computers on the attacking botnet, claim to be victims of the botnet. Since one attacker cannot overwhelm the host or generate such volumes of packets users, use the ‘Hivemind’ version of the Low Orbit Ion Cannon with IRC chat channels allowing a single user to control several secondary networked computers, creating a voluntary botnet. Low Orbit Ion Cannon floods the server targeted with packets of UDP, TCP, or HTTP with the ultimate goal of service disruption.
This tool can also launch malice-filled DDoS attacks from JS LOIC, the JavaScript version for web browsers, and the worldwide web using the web version called LOWC- Low Orbit Web Cannon. Being accessible, open-source, and needing no technical knowledge, the easy-to-use Low Orbit Ion Cannon is downloaded using a simple point-and-click interface.
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How to download LOIC and how to install LOIC is no big tech secret. Originally developed as an application for network stress-testing by Praetox Technology, it is open-source and widely used for malicious attacks by hacktivist groups like 4Chan forums intent and Anonymous. The LOIC meaning is a Low Orbit Ion Cannon which is a DoS launch tool in DDoS attacks.