Stacheldraht
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Stacheldraht (German for barbed wire) is a piece of malware for Linux and Solaris systems which acts as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) agent. The tool detects and automatically enables source address forgery.
Stacheldraht uses a number of different DoS attacks, including: UDP flood, ICMP flood, TCP SYN flood and Smurf attack.
[edit] See also
- Timeline of notable computer viruses and worms
- Distributed denial of service
- Viruses
- Worms
- Denial of service
- TFN
- flood (disambiguation)