Hi. On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 09:46:35AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 21/09/2018 à 20:32, Reco a écrit : > > > > Evil person makes a TCP connection to unprotected host, but forges > > source IP. Host sends TCP RST to this forged IP, host acting as a > > 'reflector' to an attack. And being a bad netizen at the same time. > > > > Evil person takes as many of such hosts as possible - and there goes > > your old-fashioned RST DDOS. > > What is the attacker's benefit over just sending packets directly to the > target with forged source addresses ?
The benefit is that one cannot pinpoint the real attacker, of course. > Reflection attacks give a benefit for the attacker when the reflection > provides some kind of amplification. That's I agree with. Classic TCP RST flood does not offer any amplification, that's why this kind of attack has more historic than practical nature. Reco
