Smurf

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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The Smurf attack works by spoofing the target address and sending a ping to the broadcast address for a remote network, which results in a large amount of ping replies being sent to the target.

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Smurves
possessive: Smurf's
pluralpossessive: Smurves'

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