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'