Ping Sweep

nounid 3598·updated May 9, 2026

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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

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

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§1: 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.

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