A Smurf attack is a denial-of-service (or ‘DoS’) attack from the ’90s based around a ping packet driven offense. At the time, they were known as one of the worst methods of DoS attack the internet had seen. In a Smurf attack, the target’s IP address is spoofed and tons of ICMP packets with the [...]
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