UDP Flood Attack

The UDP flood is used for volumetric DDoS attacks.

The attacker initiates the attack by sending many UDP packets host to random ports, forcing the victim’s system to reply with many ICMP packets, consuming resources, and making the victim unresponsive to other legitimate traffic.

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