According to AnonOps Communications, obviously an Anonymous-affiliated news website dedicated to “Internet freedom”, the amorphous (h)acktivist group has been developing a new program (dubbed RefRef) meant to be a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) ‘tool’ to utilize in future raids on websites deemed to be restricting human freedoms or to be used simply just for the lulz depending on what kind of Anon gets his/her hands on it. That said I thought It Was Noteworthy That A Wiki Has Been Made!
 A released screenshot of RefRef's GUI | ||
| Written in | JavaScript | |
|---|---|---|
| Operating system | Cross-platform | |
| Available in | English | |
| Type | Denial-of-service attack tool | |
| License | Public domain | |
In the past couple of months, dozens of Anons, and LulzSec-affiliated members such as Jake Davis (a.k.a “Topiary”; alleged spokesperson for LulzSec), have been arrested by authorities around the world in Turkey, Great Britain, the United States of America, Denmark and other countries.
Most, like the Anons in Turkey, were discovered by authorities very quickly because of their use of the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) during Operation Payback, Operation Avenge Assange and Operation Tunisia which does not cover their tracks on the Internet.
AnonOps Communications released an article regarding RefRef and even displayed an image (cover photo) of PasteBin’s Twitter account tweeting “Please do not test your software on us again” showing that RefRef is in the testing stages.
According to AnonOps Communications, an Anon who was advertising RefRef on one of the the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels said RefRef was due to be released this September.
The statement:
Anonymous is developing a new DDoS tool. So far, what they have is something that is platform neutral, leveraging JavaScript and vulnerabilities within SQL to create a devastating impact on the targeted website. But will the tool last, and will it make law enforcement’s job harder in the long run?
Previously, Low Orbit Ion Canon (LOIC) was the go to weapon for Anonymous supporters during protests against dictators in North Africa, and Operation: Payback. However, LOIC is also the reason scores of people have been arrested in the last year, so many feel its time is at an end.
The new tool, called #RefRef, is set to be released in September, according to an Anon promoting it on IRC this afternoon. Developed with JavaScript, the tool is said to use the target site’s own processing power against itself.
In the end, the server succumbs to resource exhaustion due to #RefRef’s usage. An attack vector that has existed for some time, resource exhaustion is often skipped over by attackers who favor the brute force of a DDoS attack sourced from bots or tools such as LOIC.
RefRef is a denial-of-service attack tool, currently in development by Anonymous.
The tool was tested on pastebin.com, which caused 42 minutes of downtime just from a 17 second attack,[1] using just one machine. It is a platform-neutral tool which exploits Javascript and SQL vulnerabilities to increase the load on a web server[2] RefRef is designed to replace the previous tool of choice, Low-Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC), which has previously led to many people's arrests.
RefRef is due to be released in September 2011.
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