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A(n) _______ allows an attacker to use a network structure to send large volumes of packets to a victim.

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A Smurf Attack

Smurf attack is kind of a DDoS attack that is somewhat similar to ping floods and in most cases exploits characteristics of broadcast networks. A system is flooded with spoofed messages. It does this by exploiting protocols of the IP and ICMP.






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