ACK and PUSH ACK Flood
Layer 4 · Transport
Description
This attack involves sending large amounts of ACK packets with PUSH flags to overwhelm the target server, exhausting its resources.
Mitigation Capabilities
- Anycast: Yes, distributes the attack load across multiple nodes.
- NGINX Proxy: Partially, helps with rate limiting but not specialized for ACK floods.
- HAProxy: Yes, effective in managing high levels of TCP traffic.
- IDS Suricata: Yes, can detect and filter malicious ACK flood traffic.
- WAF: No, WAFs are not designed for handling ACK floods.
- OWASP Rules: No, these rules target HTTP-specific threats.
- Complex anycast solution – WEDOS Protection: Partially, effective at absorbing traffic but less so at TCP-level filtering.
Solutions
Use specialized DDoS mitigation appliances and TCP-level filtering.
Why WEDOS Protection?
WEDOS Protection provides Anycast-powered edge protection that filters malicious traffic before it reaches your core systems. For DDoS types like ACK and PUSH ACK Flood , WEDOS offers scalable global filtering combined with advanced detection strategies and 24/7 support.
Can WEDOS Protection help?
✅ WEDOS Protection is highly effective against this attack due to global Anycast and intelligent filtering.
WEDOS
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