A Ping Flood is an evolved variant of an ICMP Flood in which attackers use PING, a variant ICMP to send highly-spoofed PING (ICMP) echo requests at a high rate and from large range of random source IPs, or as if they are the IP address of the … [Read more...] about What is a Ping Flood?
ICMP Flood
What is an ICMP Flood?
An ICMP Flood involves an attacker sending fraudulent ICMP packets at volumes significant enough to flood a network. The unexpected volume of the incoming spoofed ICMP packets from a large set of source IP overwhelms the victim’s network, consuming … [Read more...] about What is an ICMP Flood?