In short in many cases an amplification attack is used where you send a small quantity of traffic from a spoofed address (the victim's) to a server that will re

In short in many cases an amplification attack is used where you send a small quantity of traffic from a spoofed address (the victim's) to a server that will reply to the victim with up to several hundreds of times (even 50000) more data [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack#Amplification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack#Ampli... More detailed descriptions: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/memcached-ddos-attack/ https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/memcached-ddos-atta... https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/ntp-amplification-ddos-attack/ https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/ntp-amplification-d... https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/dns-amplification-ddos-attack/ https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/dns-amplification-d...