HTTP flood
A kind of DoS attack targeting web servers that uses bots to send multiple HTTP GET requests for accessing the largest site elements, which causes a great load on the server, leading to it being unable to process other requests. Aside from GET requests, similar results could be achieved by POST requests or some other HTTP-based actions. Attacks of this kind can often be very efficient as they do not require to use a large number of bots.
Other terms in this category
UDP floodTeardrop AttackICMP floodPing floodIP fragmentation attackSYN/ACK floodRST/FIN floodSlowloris or session attacksRecursive HTTP GET floodVoIP floodNTP floodDNS AmplificationIP Null AttackUDP floodMITM (man-in-the-middle) attackSYN flood, or SYN attackSIP malformed attackSNMP reflection attackCharGEN floodMS SQL reflection DDoS attackMemcached DDoS attack
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