Hacker Lexicon: What Is Sinkholing?

When you have tons of leftovers you put them in Tupperware. When you have an excess of phone calls, you send them to voicemail. And when you have a deluge of junk from a botnet attacking your network, you put all that malicious traffic into a sinkhole. Sinkholing is a technique for manipulating data flow in a network; you redirect traffic from its intended destination to the server of your choosing.

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