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Nuke Attack or Nuking

Nuke attack, also known as "nuking", "blue bomb" or "WinNuke", is a technique for causing the Windows operating system of someone you're communicating with to crash or suddenly terminate. The "blue bomb" is actually an out-of-band network packet containing information that the operating system can't process. This condition causes the operating system to "crash" or terminate prematurely.

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Nuke Attack or Nuking