An Analysis of DDoS Attacks on the Instant Messengers

Table 1

Attacks on IRC messenger.

S. No.	Attack name	Vulnerability	Effects
1	Account hijacking	Account authentication impersonation. Android can detect SIM number automatically.	Masquerading the scenario
2	IRC ID spoofing	IRC user account cannot be logged out	Mistrust among IRC messenger
3	SMS flooding	Unrequested SMS	Reduce IRC reliability
4	Enumeration	User’s data exchange	User's privacy badly affected
5	Message modification	PIN code message changes/insertion	Spamming attack