Mixter: I'm Going To Talk With The FBI
News Called the Tribe Flood Network, the program allows even moderately technical Web vandals to shut down Web sites via an attack known as a distributed denial of service. Mixter created two different programs -- Tribe Flood Network and Tribe Flood...
[February 15, 2000, 8:58]
Experts: Web Attacks Not Over Yet
News Tools, such as the Tribe Flood Network and a variant known as Stacheldraht, allow an attacker to set up remote "agents" on cracked computer systems that can conduct the same sort of attack as those that hit Yahoo!
[February 10, 2000, 8:45]
Distributed Attack Threat Looms On The Horizon
News Hundreds of these machines have since then been fitted with one of three DDoS applications: Tribe Flood Network, Tribe Flood Network 2000 and Stacheldraht, according to CERT. The combined bandwidth of these computers can be used to target a single...
[September 18, 2000, 9:52]
Hackers Turn To Worms
News With worms exponentially spreading, the Internet could become a much less friendly place, said Mixter, the German hacker who created the Tribe Flood Network, the DDoS tool used in the attacks on Yahoo and others a year ago.
[April 2, 2001, 7:48]
Web Attack Manhunt 'impossible'
News It will be virtually impossible (to track the attackers down)," said a "white-hat hacker" who identifies himself as "Mixter" and who authored the Tribe Flood Network. According to the 20-year-old hacker and other reports, several of the packets...
[February 11, 2000, 8:20]
Networks Hit By Co-ordinated Attack
News According to ISS, two exploit applications are being used particularly to formulate this sort of attack: trin00 and Tribe Flood Network (TFN). This new approach to attacking a network was uncovered at the National Information Systems Security...
[December 8, 1999, 12:28]
Has Your PC Been Hijacked?
News Mixter created a Denial of Service program, known as the Tribe Flood Network, which many believe was the tool of choice for the Web attackers last week. Security experts warn that network intruders -- once only a boogey man for large corporations...
[February 17, 2000, 9:21]
Mixter: A Hunted Hacker
News While the source, who asked to remain unidentified, could not say why the FBI wanted to speak with the self-proclaimed "white hat" hacker known by the handle of "Mixter," the coder did write a program known as the Tribe Flood Network, which could...
[February 14, 2000, 9:06]
How The Cyber Vandals Zapped Yahoo!
News The three best-known programs are Trinoo, Tribe and Stacheldraht, which one CERT member reported had attacked using more than 100 servers. Already CERT/CC has warned of software "tools" that allow any semi-knowledgeable vandal with a computer and...
[February 8, 2000, 8:14]
Experts Warn Of Multiple Computer Attacks
News Phillippe Bourcier, who co-maintains Cyberabuse, a site dedicated to tracking computer hacking activity, says that there has been a steady rise in the number of computers that have been compromised and fitted with popular denial of service tools...
[October 4, 2000, 14:14]
