LOIC is a popular opensource DDoS and enterprise stress generation tool renowned for its use in compromising Microsoft, Apple over the decades.
LOIC has been tagged as a critical alert DoS in CVE and other security exploit standardization establishments.
The Installation:
If you’re running the latest version of Kali or any Debian distro, LOIC requires the `monodevelop` module to build the application from its bash script.
apt install monodevelop
If you encounter an error while downloading the module, go to: https://www.monodevelop.com/download/#fndtn-download-lin-debian
Now, copy the commands from the latest debian, in the time of posting, Kali-Linux purple is currently in Debian 6.1, but you can use the Debian 10 script. It will work fine.
Now proceed with the apt install monodevelop command
Lets install LOIC:
- Create a folder called LOIC.
- Now direct to this site: https://github.com/nicolargo/loicinstaller
- Download the repo into the LOIC folder created earlier using git clone.
git clone https://github.com/nicolargo/loicinstaller.git
- Now within the folder, run the following commands
chmod 777 loic.sh
./loic.sh install
./loic.sh update
cd LOIC
./loic.sh run