Stacheldraht

Stacheldraht (German for "barbed wire") is malware which performs a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. It was written by "Thomas Stacheldraht", a member of the Austrian hacker group TESO. It was first released in 1999.^[1]

Stacheldraht

Stacheldraht attack diagram
Original author(s)	"random"
Initial release	1999 (1999)[1]
Stable release	4
Repository	https://packetstormsecurity.com/distributed/stachel.tgz
Written in	C
Operating system	Linux, Solaris
Size	36 kB
Type	Botnet
Website	packetstormsecurity.org/distributed/stachel.tgz

Stacheldraht uses a number of different denial-of-service (DoS) attack methods, including Ping flood, UDP flood, TCP SYN flood, and Smurf attack. Further, it can detect and automatically enable source address forgery. Adding encryption, it combines features of Trinoo and of Tribe Flood Network. The software runs on both Linux and Solaris.^[1]

Stacheldraht was later superseded by Blitzkrieg, which was maintained by "random" and a loose group of associates.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) – a stress test tool that has been used for DDoS attacks
• High Orbit Ion Cannon (HOIC) – the replacement for LOIC used in DDoS attacks
• Fork bomb
• Slowloris (computer security)
• ReDoS