Smurf Attack Patterns: Analyzing Attack Strategies

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A Smurf attack is a kind of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that exploits the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) to overwhelm a target network with a flood of spoofed ICMP echo request packets. The definition of "Smurf" comes from the original exploit tool called "Smurf," that was used to launch these attacks. In a Smurf attack, the attacker sends ICMP echo request packets to...

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