🚫 Denial of Service

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are a type of attack that aims to make a system or service unavailable to its intended users.

This is typically achieved by overwhelming the target with a flood of illegitimate requests, causing it to slow down or crash.

When multiple systems are used to perform a DoS attack, it is usually referred to as a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.

raven-storm raven-storm is a tool for performing DoS attacks on web applications.

HOIC HOIC (High Orbit Ion Cannon) is a network stress testing tool that can be used to perform DoS attacks.

LOIC LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) is a network stress testing tool that can be used to perform DoS attacks.

Metasploit

Metasploit has several modules that can be used to perform DoS attacks.

msfconsole
use auxiliary/dos/tcp/synflood
use auxiliary/dos/http/slowloris

hping3 is a command-line tool that can be used to generate TCP/IP packets and perform various network attacks, including DoS attacks.

hping3 -S TARGET -p PORT --flood

There are several tools and techniques that can be used to detect DoS attacks.