Conceptual hacker Ben Schmidt has combined his involvement inward the recent spate of DDoS attacks surrounding the WikiLeaks dump every bit good every bit what he holds to hold upwardly the public’s increasing over-reliance on URL shorteners as well as created D0z.me. D0z.me is a “proof-of-concept” URL shortener that attacks a server acre re-routing links.
In theory, potential attackers could watch d0z.me as well as submit a link they wanted to part every bit good every bit the URL of a server they wanted to attack. When users click on the link, they are redirected to the requested site amongst the improver of a invisible iFrame that unleashes a LOIC-canon similar Javascript DoS that runs acre the user is browsing. The malevolent script runs for every bit long every bit a user continues browsing from a page as well as is fifty-fifty to a greater extent than rigid when operate from an HTML5 browser.
Attackers interested inward scaling attacks would thence part this text amongst every bit many people every bit possible amongst the objective of either creating content that would become pop (tricking users to part the link) or accept people voluntarily postulate themselves inward the distributed assault yesteryear clicking on the link.
Schmidt makes it clear that his tool is simply an instance of how slow orchestrating something similar this as well as getting people to assault could be. He also includes a message for people who accept a nasty feel of irony as well as are pondering using the tool to DoS his ain site: “Let’s simply salve each other the fourth dimension as well as hassle as well as tell that you lot win, theoretical attacker. Congratulations.”
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