Smurf attack (Q620579)

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distributed denial-of-service attack in which many ICMP packets with the victim’s source IP are broadcast to a network using an IP broadcast address; most devices respond to this by sending a reply to the source IP, overwhelming the victim’s computer

Language	Label	Description	Also known as
English	Smurf attack	distributed denial-of-service attack in which many ICMP packets with the victim’s source IP are broadcast to a network using an IP broadcast address; most devices respond to this by sending a reply to the source IP, overwhelming the victim’s computer