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Redeyed Intelligence Library

Know the attack.
Defend with context.

A living, defender-first encyclopedia of denial-of-service, malware, identity, application, network, cloud, supply-chain and emerging attacks—organized by the layer and system each technique affects.

Current catalog 32 attack families

Version 1.1 · Reviewed August 15, 2026 · Maintained as threats and standards evolve.

11Defensive categories
9DDoS families
16Critical-impact topics
L3 · L4 · L7OSI coverage
Defensive reference. This wiki explains recognition, prevention and incident response. It intentionally omits payloads, attack commands and procedural instructions that could enable abuse. No catalog can be permanently exhaustive; the review date shows the freshness of this living taxonomy.

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Mirai is classified as botnet infrastructure; the Layer 3, 4 and 7 techniques it delivers are classified separately.

2 topics

DDoS — Layer 3

Network-layer floods and malformed IP traffic that exhaust paths, routers or packet-processing capacity.
3 topics

DDoS — Layer 4

Transport-layer attacks against TCP, UDP, state tables and exposed network services.
4 topics

DDoS — Layer 7

Application and protocol abuse designed to consume web, API, DNS, TLS or game-service resources.
1 topics

IoT & Mirai Botnets

Compromised cameras, routers, appliances and proxy networks used as distributed attack infrastructure.
4 topics

Ransomware & Malware

Malicious code used for extortion, persistence, espionage, destruction, theft or unauthorized computing.
5 topics

Web & API Attacks

Attacks against authorization, input handling, sessions, business logic and server-side application behavior.
4 topics

Identity & Social Engineering

Account takeover and human-targeted methods that abuse credentials, trust, recovery flows or authentication.
2 topics

Network & Infrastructure

Traffic interception, routing manipulation, name-service abuse and local-network attacks.
3 topics

Cloud & Supply Chain

Compromise through cloud control planes, dependencies, build systems, containers and trusted vendors.
1 topics

Data, Insider & Impact

Theft, manipulation, destruction, extortion and misuse of privileged access.
3 topics

AI & Emerging Attacks

Attacks against models, agents, training data and AI-connected tools, plus fast-evolving abuse patterns.

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DDoS — Layer 3

2 topics
high risk OSI Layer 3

Source Address Spoofing

Forged source IP addresses conceal an attacker's origin and make reflection attacks possible.

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high risk OSI Layer 3

Volumetric Network Floods

Raw packet or bit volume exhausts circuit capacity and packet-processing budgets before traffic ever reaches an application.

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