What is a Ping Flood?

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 fromĀ  large range of random source IPs, or as if they are the IP address of the victim. They can quickly overwhelm a target … Continue reading What is a Ping Flood?