Many hosts participate in a coordinated attack.
Many hosts participate in a coordinated attack.
Smurfing
What you are describing is not a type of malware, but a DoS (Denial of Service) attack.
distributed denial-of-service attack or known as DDoS
A DDoS attack is characterized by multiple machines spamming specific packets to a target machine with the intent of overloading the target machine so it is unable to service other connecting clients.
A DDOS attack is a dedicated denial of service by making a computer's resources unusable to its users. In order to prevent it, you need a good firewall. You can also block those attacking IP addresses.
Advanced hardware firewalls can protect a company from falling to a DDOS attack, though not the most sophisticated attacks. Servers can also be configured to minimize the effect of an attack to define limits on application resource allocation. There are also DDOS mitigation appliances available to "sanitize" traffic, though none are perfect and will allow some bad traffic through.
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic.
A DDoS attack
Because they are capable of conducting a very hard to prevent DDoS attack.
A Denial of Service attack (Abbreviated as DoS).
A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack is a type of cyber attack that aims to overwhelm a website or online service with a flood of traffic from multiple sources, making it unavailable to its intended users. The DDoS traffic is typically generated by a large number of computers or Internet-connected devices, often infected with malware, that are controlled by a single entity known as a botnet. These devices, called zombies, send large amounts of traffic to the target, overwhelming its network and servers, causing it to crash or become unavailable.