i bought a DDoS attack on the DARK WEB (don't do this)

About this video

He explains denial-of-service attacks as overwhelming or confusing a server rather than breaking into it, warning repeatedly that attacking anyone without permission can lead to jail. He demonstrates Low Orbit Ion Cannon against his own web server and watches ping latency rise only slightly, then uses hping3 for an ICMP ping flood and explains that one machine is usually not enough, while several machines flooding together become a DDoS and can push local latency much higher, though disabling ICMP defeats that attack. He next explains a SYN flood that abuses the TCP three-way handshake by sending SYN requests without completing them, again amplified across machines. He then examines a dark-web script he calls Sapphira, which he says builds large numbers of unique HTTP GET requests with varied headers to evade firewalls, and shows the Build Your Own Botnet framework with a command-and-control panel, payload generation and post-exploitation modules, explaining that botnets are often unaware infected computers. For defence he recommends firewalls, patching, redundancy and cloud or Cloudflare-style protection.

Key takeaways

• A DoS overwhelms a target; a DDoS does the same from multiple machines at once
• A ping flood with hping3 fails if ICMP is disabled on the target
• A SYN flood exploits the TCP handshake by never completing connections
• He says Sapphira evades simple firewall detection by varying HTTP GET request headers
• Botnets are networks of infected, often unaware, computers controlled centrally

Episode details: published October 3, 2020 · 19:27 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are NetworkChuck’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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