Twinge attack
advICE :Intrusions : 2000111

Summary

The Twinge program is probably being used to attack your system.

Details

The Twinge program sends a large number of false ICMP control messages very rapidly to a system. This usually results in performance degradation, and may cause the attacked system to crash. This attack is essentially an ICMP flood, but with a particular signature that indicates that the Twinge program was being used.

Spoofing

This attack is very likely to be spoofed.

configuration for this item icmp.maxcnt 100 This intrusion detection is triggered if the number of ICMP frames per second (excluding ECHO frames) exceeds this count.

 
Version appeared: 2.1