Fraggle Attacks: The Lesser-Known Cyber Threat You Should Fear
A Fraggle attack is a specific type of Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack that aims to disrupt network operations by overwhelming a target system with a high volume of spoofed User Datagram Protocol (UDP) traffic. Specifically, in this attack, the perpetrator sends UDP packets to IP broadcast addresses, with the source address deliberately forged to appear as that of the victim. These…