What is an ICMP Flood Attack?
ICMP flood attack is 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 AttackVoIP floodMS SQL reflection DDoS attackCharGEN floodSNMP reflection attackSIP malformed attackSYN Flood, or SYN AttackMITM (man-in-the-middle) attackIP Null AttackDNS AmplificationNTP floodMemcached DDoS attackRecursive HTTP GET floodHTTP floodSlowloris or session attacksRST/FIN FloodSYN/ACK FloodIP Fragmentation AttackWhat Is a Ping Flood?What is an ICMP Flood Attack?
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