opengs/uashield

Health v2 · maintenance only

Flags: archived

Adoption not part of the score

1077 stars · 168 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

UA Cyber SHIELD is a volunteer cybersecurity tool built during the Russian invasion of Ukraine that coordinates distributed denial-of-service attacks against targets selected by a central coordination server. It ships as an Electron desktop app, a headless CLI, and Docker images, and the project has since been discontinued and archived.

Use cases

• join a coordinated volunteer cyber defense network
• run a headless attack client in docker with configurable worker threads
• deploy the tool on a raspberry pi or via ansible
• automatically fetch and rotate attack targets from a coordination center

When to choose

• you specifically want to participate in this historical volunteer campaign's infrastructure
• you need a ready-made distributed request-flooding client with central target coordination

When to avoid

• you need a maintained or supported security tool - the project is archived and unused for years
• you want lawful penetration testing or defensive security tooling
• you cannot accept the legal and ethical risks of participating in coordinated denial-of-service attacks

Facets

application · maturity abandoned

security networking cli developer-tools security cross-platform windows cli ddos hacktivism ukraine volunteer-coordination electron-app headless raspberry-pi ansible automation linux docker electron

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