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PowerWAF Attacks Encyclopedia

DDoS Attacks

6 documented attacks in this category. Understand the threats, learn detection techniques, and implement effective defenses.

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Critical

DNS Amplification Attack

A DNS amplification attack is a reflection-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that exploits open DNS reso...

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High

HTTP Flood Attack

An HTTP Flood is an application-layer (Layer 7) DDoS attack that overwhelms a web server by sending massive volumes of s...

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Critical

HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Attack

The HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack (CVE-2023-44487) exploits the stream multiplexing and cancellation mechanism in HTTP/2 to ...

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High

Slowloris Attack

Slowloris is a low-bandwidth DDoS attack that exhausts a server's connection pool by opening multiple connections and ke...

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Critical

SYN Flood Attack

A SYN flood is a denial-of-service attack that exploits the TCP three-way handshake by sending massive volumes of SYN pa...

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High

UDP Flood Attack

A UDP flood is a volumetric denial-of-service attack that exploits the connectionless, stateless nature of the User Data...

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