# Smurf attack

> distributed denial-of-service attack in which many ICMP packets with the victim’s source IP are broadcast to a network using an IP broadcast address; most devices respond to this by sending a reply to the source IP, overwhelming the victim’s computer

**Wikidata**: [Q620579](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q620579)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smurf_attack)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/smurf-attack


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. KBpedia