Attacks

Attacks

1. DoS

   • DDos: multiple systems attack
   • DRDoS: manipulates traffic on a network to reflect attacks from other sources
   • Smurf: floods victim with ICMP echo packets
   • Fraggle attacks: floods with UDP packets over ports 7 and 19

2. SYN Flood Attack: attackers send multiple SYN packets but never completes with an ACK

3. TCP reset

4. Ping of Death: oversized ping packet

5. Ping Flood

6. Botnets (aka Zombies)

7. Teardrop: fragments traffic so that a system is unable to put data packets back together

8. Land attacks: spoofed SYN packets send to victim using victim's IP address as source and destination

9. Zero-day exploit: exploiting a vulnerability that is unknown to others

10. Malicious code

11. War Dialing: using a modem to search for a system that accepts inbound connection attempts

12. MitM

13. Espionage