Smurf Attack
The Smurf attack is used for DDoS attacks, where the attacker spoofs the victim’s IP address and then broadcasts many ICMP packets from the spoofed address.
Other devices will respond by replying to the source IP address (spoofed), thus flooding the victim’s computer.
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