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Ping Sweep

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

An attack that sends ICMP echo requests ("pings") to a range of IP addresses, with the goal of finding hosts that can be probed for vulnerabilities.

MWE

Classifications

Entity Type

Threat92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Ping Sweeps
possessive
Ping Sweep's
pluralpossessive
Ping Sweeps'