The Tribe Flood Network or TFN is a set of computer programs to conduct various
DDoS
In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connect ...
attacks such as
ICMP flood,
SYN flood
A SYN flood is a form of denial-of-service attack in which an attacker rapidly initiates a connection to a server without finalizing the connection. The server has to spend resources waiting for half-opened connections, which can consume enough ...
,
UDP flood and
Smurf attack
A Smurf attack is a distributed denial-of-service attack in which large numbers of Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packets with the intended victim's spoofed source IP are broadcast to a computer network using an IP broadcast address. M ...
.
First TFN initiated attacks are described in
CERTbr>
Incident Note 99-04
TFN2K was written by
Mixter, a security professional and hacker based in Germany.
See also
External links
Tribe Flood NetworkTFN2K - An Analysisby Jason Barlow and Woody Thrower of AXENT Security Team
TFN2K source code
Botnets
Denial-of-service attacks
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