fork-bombs

A fork-bomb is a type of malicious computer program designed to rapidly create many copies of itself. When executed, it causes a computer to continually spawn new processes, overwhelming its resources like processing power and memory. This excessive resource consumption can slow down or crash the system, making it unresponsive. Essentially, a fork-bomb exploits a computer's ability to duplicate tasks to cause disruption, often as a form of denial-of-service attack or to cause system instability.