An ICMP flood attack is a method of denial-of-service (or ‘DoS’) attack otherwise known as a ‘ping flood’. An ICMP flood is one of the simplest ping-based DoS attacks, largely what it sounds like, in which the attacker overloads the victim’s system with ICMP/ping packets by using a method of sending ICMP packets constantly without [...]
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