Miniature fragment attack
nounverified· unreviewed·updated Aug 30, 2026
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
- plural
- Miniature fragment attacks
- possessive
- Miniature fragment attack's
- pluralpossessive
- Miniature fragment attacks'