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How does a UDP Flood Attack work?

Exploits peer-to-peer networks by maliciously redirecting legitimate vistors to the site or server they want to attack.

Sends rapid amounts of packets to a machine in an attempt to keep connections from being closed.

Flooding ports on a target machine with packets that make the machine listen for applications on those ports and send back an ICMP packet.

Sends out partial requests to a target server in an effort to keep the connections open as long as possible.

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