Ping flood
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.
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