Raven Storm, the Multi-Threading Tool Employed by Hacktivists for DDoS Attacks - CloudSEK

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Executive Summary
THREAT

- Mysterious Team advertising a powerful multi-threading DDoS tool capable of server takedown, wifi attack, and application layer attacks.
- Tool also allows connecting to a client via botnets.

IMPACT

- Significant downtime for the targeted website and server
- Loss of brand reputation.
- Hosting issues for other websites being hosted on the same server.

MITIGATION

- Implement anti-DDoS protection on the server.
- Use IP geo-blocking in case of an attack.

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