DDoS Attack Definitions - DDoSPedia

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Hijackware
A type of malware that infects an Internet browser in order to display advertising and/or redirect the user to malicious websites. By taking control of a browser's settings, hijackware redirects the user to websites that are written by default into its code. Also known as browser hijacking.
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A

ADB Miner

Admin.HLP

Advanced Persistent Attack

Amplification Attack

Anonymous

Apache Killer

Application Misuse Attack

ARP Poisoning

Asymmetric Attack

B

Backdoor

BEAST

Booster Script

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Attack

Botmaster

Botnet

Boy-in-the-Browser Attack

BrickerBot

Buffer Overflow Attack

ByteDoS

C

CERT

Clean Pipe

Clearnet

Click Fraud

Clickjacking

CoAP

Command and Control Server

Conflicker

Cookie

Cookie Poisoning

Counter-attack

Cryptovirus

CutWail Botnet

CVE

Cyber Ransom

D

Darknet

Darkness (Optima)

DarkSky

Dark Web

Deep Web

Digital Fraud

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attack

DNS Amplification Attack

DNS Flood

DoS (Denial-of-Service) Attack

DROWN

DrDos Attack

Duqu

Dynamic Web Injection

E

Exploit

F

Flame

Flood

Forged Cookie

FREAK

Fraggle Attack

Fragmented ACK Attack

G

Guy Fawkes Mask

H

Hacker

Hacktivist

Hijackware

HEARTBLEED

High-rate Attack

HOIC (High Orbit Ion Cannon)

Honeypot

Hping

HTTP

HTTPS

HTTPS Flood

HTTP Challenge

HTTP Cookie

HTTP Flood

HTTP Fragmentation Attack

I

I2P (Invisible Internet Project)

ICMP Flood

Impression Fraud

Ingress Filtering (InFilter)

Internet Pipe Saturation

IP Address

IP Spoofing

IRC (Internet Relay Chat)

ISP (Internet Service Provider)

itsoknoproblembro

Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters

J

JenX

JS Cookie Challenges

K

Keylogging

L

LAND Attack

LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon)

Low-rate Attack

LulzSec

M

MalSpam

Malware

Man-in-the-Browser Attack

Man-in-the-Middle Attack

Memcached

Mirai

Mitigating Controls

Mobile LOIC

Morris Worm

MSSP

Multi-Factor Authentication

Mydoom

N

Naptha Attacks

Necurs

Network Scan

Nuke

O

Open DNS Resolver

Operation Ababil

Operation AntiSec

Operation Blackout

Operation Defense

Operation Killing Bay

Operation Payback

OpIcarus

OpIsrael

OpKillingBay

OpSingleGateway

P

Packet

Pandex Botnet

Password Spraying

Parasiteware

Peer to Peer Attack

Ping of Death

PitbullBot

POODLE

Port Scan

Pushdo Botnet

Putinstresser

Pyloris

Q

No terms currently listed.

R

Ransomware

Ransom DDoS

Rate Limit

RFI/LFI

Reflector/Reflective DoS attacks

Reflector server

Resident Virus

R.U.D.Y. (R-U-Dead-Yet?)

S

Scareware

Scrubbing Center

Session Hijacking

SIP Register flood

SIP Malformed Attack

SIP Server Flood

SIP brute force

SIP Client Call Flood

Slow-Rate Attack

Slowloris

Smurf Attack

Social Engineering

SSL

SSL Stripping

Sockstress

SQL Injection

SSL Garbage Flood

Stabuniq

Static Web Injection

Stuxnet

Supply Chain Attack

SYN-ACK Flood

SYN cookies

SYN Flood

T

Topera

Tor's Hammer

TOR

TCP Flood

Trin00

TheWikiBoat

THC-SSL DoS

Traffic

Trickbot

Trojan Horse

TDL-4 (Alureon)

TCP Window Scaling

Teardrop Attack

TLS

U

UDP Flood

V

Vulnerability

Vulnerability Scanner

W

WannaCry

Wireshark

Web Scraping

Worm

X

XerXeS

Y

No terms currently listed.

Z

Zeus

Zero-Day/Zero-Minute Attack

Zombie

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