Which Android-based tool floods networks and can perform UDP, HTTP, or TCP floods?

• A. HOIC
• B. LOIC
• C. Packets Generator
• D. AnDOSid

Answer: (B)

Flooding a network means overwhelming a target with a high volume of traffic to exhaust its resources. An Android-based tool that can perform UDP, HTTP, or TCP floods does this by generating a large amount of traffic across those protocols. UDP floods send many datagrams without establishing a connection, quickly saturating bandwidth. TCP floods try to open and maintain a huge number of connections, tying up server resources. HTTP floods bombard a web service with a flood of requests, stressing application handling and back-end processing. LOIC, the Low Orbit Ion Cannon, has Android versions and is known for supporting these flood modes, making it the tool described. While other tools exist, they are not the Android-based multi-protocol flood tool described here.