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In this demo, we're going to explore the Hive Mind feature in LOIC.

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This feature enables us to connect multiple LOIC instances to an IRC channel and

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then control them all using commands from the same channel.

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We'll walk through this process over the next two demos. For this first demo,

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we're going to set up an IRC server to control LOIC.

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We will quickly discuss the Hive Mind feature and then connect

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multiple LOIC instances to an IRC channel.

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Once our devices are connected, we'll be ready for the next demo

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where we will carry out the attack. Let's head over to the lab and

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get started. If you installed the lab using the Vagrantfile, I

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already installed an IRC server and client on the LOIC host that we

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use for the rest of the demos.

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If not,

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you can install any IRC server and client for these exercises. From Host 1,

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you can start the ICC server using this icon from the desktop to start

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InspIRCd. You won't see any notification on the screen, but we can check to

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see that it's running in the terminal.

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Just run ps ‑eaf and grep for inspircd. Once you

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verify that the server is running,

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you can connect to the IRC server using this chat client.

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Once the chat client is open, type /connect followed

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by the IP address of your host.

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Once you've connected to the server,

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join the LOIC channel using the command /channel #loic. From here, we

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can manage the LOIC instances that connect to our server using Hive

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Mind. From the LOIC interface, we connect to our IRC channel by typing

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our IP in the block for IRC server.

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Then we click this bubble to go into IRC mode. In the top right here,

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you'll see that it's connected if it was successful, and if we look at

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our channel, we'll see that our LOIC host has joined. Since we're just

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controlling the same single host, this doesn't get us much, so let's

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connect another host to the same server. As I mentioned earlier, I

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have a Kali Linux machine on this network and I've installed LOIC for

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this course.

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I'll start LOIC by navigating to the directory and running ./LOIC/loic.sh run.

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Once it's open,

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we follow the same process to connect it to our IRC server. And it's connected.

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Let's go back to our IRC channel, and we see that our Kali

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Linux machine has also joined the channel.

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Now that it's connected,

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we can control both of these machines from the single chat

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window and execute an attack on the same target.

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In this demo, we activated Hive Mind mode to connect two

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computers running LOIC to an IRC channel.

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This sets us up for the next demo where we'll enter commands into the IRC

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channel to execute another attack against our remote network