Well,
we've come to the end of this course on the Low Orbit
Ion Cannon network stress tool.
LOIC is a fun tool to use in a lab,
but I'm going to warn you now that this tool does
absolutely nothing to hide your identity.
Do not use this tool against any targets that you're not
authorized to conduct these kind of activities on.
LOIC and any other impact tools are designed to bring down services and hosts.
They will announce your presence loudly,
which is why they're used in the final phase of an attack. For
additional LOIC capability information, this link takes you to the
GitHub site, which covers the methods for installing LOIC on other
operating systems. In a Windows environment, LOIC also has command lines
to run remotely and connect to a Hive Mind server without displaying an
interface. If you have a Windows virtual environment, this is another
feature to explore.
There are also other impact topics within the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
You can visit this link to view the impact tactic overall. There
are multiple impact attacks in addition to the flood attacks we
covered, like data destruction, data encryption,
data manipulation,
defacement, disk wiping, and resource hijacking. Data
encryption in particular is a big topic in this category with
ransomware attacks continuing to rise.
I hope you enjoyed this Red Team Tools course on Low Orbit Ion
Cannon. Continue exploring and check out the other Red Team
Tools courses available on Pluralsight