Stacheldraht

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Stacheldraht (German for barbed wire) is a piece of software written by Random 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)

[edit] External links

• Dittrich summary of Stacheldraht features
• Dittrich analysis of Stacheldraht