smurf attacks

A form of smurf attack — A largely obsolete form of denial-of-service attack, involving broadcasting ICMP packets with the intended victim's IP address to a large computer network, causing the victim's computer to be overwhelmed by the response packets from the network.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of smurf attack
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