What Is a Ping Flood?
Ping flood is a type of DoS attack targeting network equipment — a variant of ICMP flood attack that is carried out using programs or utilities being a part of desktop operating systems, such as the diagnostic ping utility: a server is overwhelmed by ping (ICMP Echo) requests, leading to a denial of service.
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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