Fork bomb

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Summary

The Fork Bomb (also called rabbit virus or wabbit) is a memory exhausting Denial of Service (DoS) Attack. It depletes the memory of a machine by replicating itself exponentially until all memory is used up.

References

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forkbomb (german version for source code)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forkbomb

[3] https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/fork-system-call/

[4] IEEE: Exploring the Possibility of USB based Fork Bomb Attack on Windows Environment

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