Stacheldraht
Stacheldraht attack diagram
Original author	"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 (German for "barbed wire") ismalware which performs adistributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. It was written by "Thomas Stacheldraht", a member of the Austrian hacker groupTESO. It was first released in 1999.^[1]

Stacheldraht uses a number of differentdenial-of-service (DoS) attack methods, includingping flood,UDPflood,TCPSYN flood, andSmurf attack. Further, it can detect and automatically enablesource address forgery. Adding encryption, it combines features ofTrinoo and ofTribe Flood Network. The software runs on bothLinux andSolaris.^[1]

Stacheldraht was later superseded by Blitzkrieg, which was maintained by "random" and a loose group of associates.^{[citation needed]}

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• High Orbit Ion Cannon (HOIC) – the replacement for LOIC used in DDoS attacks
• Fork bomb
• Slowloris (computer security)
• ReDoS

• Technical analysis of Stacheldraht
• Summary of Stacheldraht featuresArchived 2016-03-06 at theWayback Machine

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