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Miniature fragment attack

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Using this method, an attacker fragments the IP packet into smaller ones and pushes it through the firewall, in the hope that only the first of the sequence of fragmented packets would be examined and the others would pass without review.

MWEISACA Cybersecurity Glossary

Classifications

Entity Type

Threat0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity

—85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

—90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

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Miniature fragment attacks
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Miniature fragment attack's
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