How is the Smurf denial-of-service attack mounted?
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A smurf attack is a type of denial of service attack in which a system is flooded with spoofed ping messages. This creates high computer network traffic on the victim's network, which often renders it unresponsive.
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The smurf DOS (denial of service) attack is basically mounted by sending the ( ICMP Internet message control protocol ) request to the broadcast address by using the IP address in the form of sender.
The smurf basically generate the spoof packet that contain the source address in the form of real internet protocol (IP) address which contain the ICMP ping. It basically create the high traffic on the victim computer network.
The Smurf denial-of-service attack is mounted by sending ICMP echo request to a broadcast address, and using the victim IP address as sender. Explanation: The Smurf malware generates a spoofed packet which has its source address as the real IP address