Editing Smurf attack (section)

==History==
The original tool for creating a Smurf attack was written by Dan Moschuk (alias TFreak) in 1997.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hackepedia.org/?title=Tfreak |title=Tfreak |publisher=Hackepedia |date=2013-03-28 |accessdate=2019-11-13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Pramatarov |first=Martin |date=2021-09-09 |title=What is a Smurf DDoS attack? |url=https://www.cloudns.net/blog/what-is-smurf-ddos-attack/ |access-date=2022-09-15 |website=ClouDNS Blog |language=en-US}}</ref>

In the late 1990s, many IP networks would participate in Smurf attacks if prompted (that is, they would respond to ICMP requests sent to broadcast addresses). The name comes from the idea of very small, but numerous attackers overwhelming a much larger opponent (see [[Smurfs]]). Today, administrators can make a network immune to such abuse; therefore, very few networks remain vulnerable to Smurf attacks.<ref>For example, [https://web.archive.org/web/19990125091051/http://www.netscan.org/ netscan.org (Web Archive)] showed 122,945 broken networks as of Jan 25, 1999, but only 2,417 as of Jan 06, 2005.</ref>