Its sounds like you are describing a smurf attack, which has been around
for a very long time.
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, M. Neidorff wrote:
> At 04:07 PM 12/15/1999 -0500, you wrote:
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> >Ok, I have to say I've never seen this one in the typical Hoax "alerts"
> >people pass around, I'm not sure how these programs can "lie dormant until
> >activated" (sure crontab, but it'd be pretty obvious somethings up..)
> >anyone confirm this is a hoax?
>
> There is a type of DOS (Denial of service) attack going on now which I read
> about yesterday which sounds just like what your article describes. Many
> machines are compromised and server as attackers. They all send ping (for
> example) to the host to be attacked at the same time. This attack floods
> the bandwidth available to the host (according to what I read, up to a
> T3!!!) and brings the host to its knees. The attack is difficult to trace
> since it is distributed and does not attack the host directly, only uses up
> the available bandwidth.
>
>
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