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TFN: Tribal Flood Network

Tribal Flood Network (TFN), like trinoo, is a classic DDoS attack, using a master program and multiple agents on multiple compromised systems. Unlike trinoo it can spoof the source IP for the agents, and can generate multiple types of attack (including UDP flood, TCP SYN flood, ICMP echo request flood, and ICMP directed broadcast). TFN2K is a more sophisticated version of the original TFN.

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TFN: Tribal Flood Network