ICMP flood
A DoS attack against a victim server, carried out by sending a huge flood of forged ICMP packets from multiple IP addresses, which results in the server's being overwhelmed due to processing the packets.
Other terms in this category
UDP floodTeardrop AttackPing floodIP fragmentation attackSYN/ACK floodRST/FIN floodSlowloris or session attacksHTTP floodRecursive 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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