Attacks

Recursive HTTP GET flood is a type of HTTP flood attack where the attacker requests a number of pages from a website, analyzes the responses and then recursively requests every object available on the website.

A kind of DoS attack targeting web servers that uses bots to send multiple HTTP GET requests for accessing the largest site elements, which causes a great load on the server, leading to it being unable to process other requests. Aside from GET requests, similar results could be achieved by POST requests or some other HTTP-based actions. Attacks of this kind can often be very efficient as they do not require to use a large number of bots.

Slowloris is a type of DoS attack that aims to flood a targeted server with incomplete HTTP requests.

DoS attacks against TCP servers that exploit vulnerabilities in TCP-SYN session closure: a server overload is achieved by sending a flood of forged RST or FIN packets.

DoS attack based on fragmentation of IP packets.

A type of DoS attack targeting network equipment, a variant of ICMP flood attack.

A DoS attack against a victim server, carried out by sending a huge flood of forged ICMP packets from multiple IP addresses.

SYN/ACK flood is an attack targeting TCP servers. It involves sending spoofed packets with both SYN and ACK flags set.