Flood attacks are a type of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks that aim to saturate the bandwidth or resources of a target by sending a large number of packets or requests. Flood attacks can be classified into different categories based on the protocol or layer they target, such as ICMP, UDP, TCP SYN, HTTP, DNS, etc. Flood attacks can also be distributed (DDoS) if they involve multiple sources of attack traffic, such as compromised devices or servers123. References := 1: Denial of Service - OWASP Cheat Sheet Series 2: What is a denial-of-service (DoS) attack? | Cloudflare 3: Types of DOS attacks - GeeksforGeeks
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