A DNS Flood is a type of DDoS attack in which DNS is employed as a variant of a UDP Flood. Spoofed DNS request packets are sent at a high packet rate and from a large volume of source IP addresses. The victim’s DNS servers believe that these are … [Read more...] about What is a DNS Flood?
DNS Amplification
What is a UDP Flood?
A UDP Flood Attack involves the sending of highly-spoofed UDP packets at an extremely high packet rate using a wide source IP range. The unexpectedly high volume of incoming UDP packets overwhelms the victim’s network, exhausting its resources and … [Read more...] about What is a UDP Flood?
What is DNS Amplification?
A Domain Name Server (DNS) Amplification Attack is a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in which the attacker exploits vulnerabilities in publicly accessible DNS servers to turn initially small queries into much larger payloads, which are … [Read more...] about What is DNS Amplification?