Smurf attack

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Smurf attack - distributed denial-of-service attack in which many ICMP packets with the victim’s source IP are broadcast to a network using an IP broadcast address; most devices respond to this by sending a reply to the source IP, overwhelming the victim’s computer. Article “Smurf attack” in English Wikipedia has 31.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 9 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Smurf attack” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Smurf attack”, its content was written by 144 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 365 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 33 times in English Wikipedia and cited 241 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2235 in January 2003
• Global: #4291 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5433 in December 2008
• Global: #11638 in December 2008

There are 19 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Smurf attack		31.3385
2	Portuguese (pt) Ataque Smurf		26.169
3	Persian (fa) حمله اسمورفینگ		23.924
4	Czech (cs) Smurf attack		22.3852
5	Italian (it) Smurf		21.9501
6	Catalan (ca) Smurf attack		20.828
7	Slovenian (sl) Smurf attack		15.6508
8	Japanese (ja) Smurf攻撃		14.954
9	Korean (ko) 스머프 공격		14.0039
10	German (de) Smurf-Angriff		11.3099

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Smurf attack		1 813 087
2	German (de) Smurf-Angriff		212 531
3	Spanish (es) Ataque pitufo		113 840
4	Italian (it) Smurf		77 380
5	Polish (pl) Smurf attack		70 223
6	French (fr) Attaque par rebond		48 161
7	Indonesian (id) Serangan Smurf		31 879
8	Japanese (ja) Smurf攻撃		29 790
9	Portuguese (pt) Ataque Smurf		23 294
10	Finnish (fi) Smurf-hyökkäys		22 502

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Smurf attack		2 691
2	Japanese (ja) Smurf攻撃		172
3	German (de) Smurf-Angriff		137
4	Italian (it) Smurf		118
5	Polish (pl) Smurf attack		98
6	Korean (ko) 스머프 공격		77
7	Spanish (es) Ataque pitufo		63
8	French (fr) Attaque par rebond		51
9	Portuguese (pt) Ataque Smurf		42
10	Finnish (fi) Smurf-hyökkäys		31

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Smurf attack		144
2	German (de) Smurf-Angriff		46
3	Italian (it) Smurf		35
4	French (fr) Attaque par rebond		21
5	Polish (pl) Smurf attack		19
6	Spanish (es) Ataque pitufo		18
7	Finnish (fi) Smurf-hyökkäys		15
8	Dutch (nl) Smurf (computeraanval)		14
9	Portuguese (pt) Ataque Smurf		12
10	Persian (fa) حمله اسمورفینگ		7

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Smurf attack		2
2	Persian (fa) حمله اسمورفینگ		1
3	Polish (pl) Smurf attack		1
4	Arabic (ar) هجوم السنافر		0
5	Catalan (ca) Smurf attack		0
6	Czech (cs) Smurf attack		0
7	German (de) Smurf-Angriff		0
8	Greek (el) Επίθεση Smurf		0
9	Spanish (es) Ataque pitufo		0
10	Basque (eu) Smurf eraso		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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