SNMP reflection attack
A DDoS attack variant that exploits vulnerabilities of the SNMP network management protocol and resembles DNS amplification attacks: using a spoofed victim IP address, the attacker sends a large amount of SNMP GetBulk requests with MaxRepetitions parameter set to the highest possible value (2250) to multiple connected devices, which in turn send streams of responses to the attacked network until it gets down. The streams can come at rates of up to hundreds of gigabits per second. Attacks of this type have a very high destructive capacity.
Other terms in this category
UDP floodTeardrop AttackWhat is an ICMP Flood Attack?What Is a Ping Flood?IP 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 attackCharGEN floodMS SQL reflection DDoS attackMemcached DDoS attack
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