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Smurf attack

A Smurf attack is a distributed denial-of-service attack in which large numbers of Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packets with the intended victim's spoofed source IP are broadcast to a computer network using an IP broadcast address. Most devices on a network will, by default, respond to this by sending a reply to the source IP address. If the…

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Smurfs
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Fraggle attack

Fraggle RockUDPEchoCHARGENSource code
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Method

AmplificationUnicastBroadcastEthernet
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Mitigation

Ingress filteringCisco
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Smurf attack

Nodes23
Edges22
Triples32
Avg. degree1.91
Density0.086957
Components1

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Smurf attack

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related to Fraggle attack · 10
Smurf attack → CHARGEN, Echo, Fraggle, Fraggle Rock, IP, It, Smurf, TFreak, TV, UDP
related to history · 9
Smurf attack → Dan Moschuk, ICMP, In, IP, Smurf, Smurfs, TFreak, The, Today
related to Method · 6
Smurf attack → An, ICMP, In DDoS, IP, Mb/s, Smurf
related to Mitigation on a Cisco router · 4
Smurf attack → An, Cisco, Smurf, This
related to Effect · 2
Smurf attack → Smurf, The
is a · 1
Smurf attack → distributed denial-of-service attack in which large numbers of Internet Control Message Protocol

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network attack smurf broadcast packets address source icmp echo target large computer amplification ping host ip respond hosts reply receive

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Smurf attackis adistributed denial-of-service attack in which large numbers of Internet Control Message Protocol0.90text
Smurf attackrelated to EffectSmurf0.60section
Smurf attackrelated to EffectThe0.60section
Smurf attackrelated to Fraggle attackFraggle0.60section
Smurf attackrelated to Fraggle attackTV0.60section
Smurf attackrelated to Fraggle attackFraggle Rock0.60section
Smurf attackrelated to Fraggle attackSmurf0.60section
Smurf attackrelated to Fraggle attackUDP0.60section
Smurf attackrelated to Fraggle attackEcho0.60section
Smurf attackrelated to Fraggle attackCHARGEN0.60section
Smurf attackrelated to Fraggle attackIt0.60section
Smurf attackrelated to Fraggle attackIP0.60section

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