Denial of Service White Papers

Trinity v3/ Stacheldraht 1.666
Distributed Denial of Service Tool

• Tags:
• denial of service,
• machines,
• ddos,
• trinity

Overview New variants of the Trinity and Stacheldraht Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) tools have been found in the wild. As was demonstrated in February of this year, DDoS attacks can bring down networks by flooding target machines with more traffic than the machines can process. This advisory provides an update to previous NIPC DDoS advisories (issued since December 1999) on similar tools such as "mstream," "Tribal Flood Network," and "trinoo." The NIPC has recently determined that masters tied to zombies have been placed on many users' systems, heightening the possibility of a DDoS attack in the future. In addition to large corporate and university systems, affected users also include those with home computers having broadband access such as DSL and cable modem. The NIPC recommends that all computer network owners and organizations examine their systems for evidence of DDoS tools, including Trinity and Stacheldraht.

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