Department of Justice, the Recording Industry Association of America, the Motion Picture Association of America and Broadcast Music, Inc.
It was launched in retaliation for the shutting down of Megaupload, a filesharing website, and targeted websites belonging to the U.S. This differs from LOIC, which requires thousands of users to coordinate and launch an attack.Īnonymous first used HOIC in 2012 during Operation Megaupload - at the time one of the largest DDoS assaults ever recorded. Firepower – An individual HOIC user can launch a significant number of junk requests at a given time as few as 50 perpetrators can execute a successful DDoS attack.This differs from LOIC, which isn’t capable of obfuscating attacker IP addresses. Detection – HOIC uses booster scripts that let perpetrators scatter attack traffic and hide their geolocation.HOIC was designed to improve upon several LOIC application flaws, including: Used for denial of service (DoS) and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, it functions by flooding target systems with junk HTTP GET and POST requests. High Orbit Ion Cannon (HOIC) is a free, open-source network stress application developed by Anonymous, a hacktivist collective, to replace the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC).
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