ACK Flood
Layer 4 · Transport
Description
Floods the target with TCP ACK packets to exhaust server resources.
Mitigation Capabilities
- Anycast: Yes, disperses ACK traffic across nodes.
- NGINX Proxy: No, not suitable for TCP-level floods.
- HAProxy: Yes, mitigates high ACK traffic volumes.
- IDS Suricata: Yes, detects excessive ACK patterns.
- WAF: No, irrelevant for TCP-level floods.
- OWASP Rules: No, unrelated to ACK traffic.
- Complex anycast solution – WEDOS Protection: Yes, mitigates ACK floods efficiently.
Solutions
Use firewalls and rate-limiting tools to filter abnormal ACK traffic.
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 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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