About the creators: THC (The Hackers Choice) is a well known hacker group active since 1995. One of their most famous project is Hydra[0].

  > "We research and publish tools and academic papers to expose fishy IT security that just isn’t secure. We also develop and publish tools to help the IT Security movement."[1]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_%28software%29

1. https://www.thc.org/