SYN flood, or SYN attack
A variant of DoS attack implemented at the TCP protocol level – during the attack, a victim node is overloaded by sending a large amount of SYN TCP segments to it (usually, a node is unable to handle more than several thousands of the segments at once). Attacks of this kind are highly efficient.
Other terms in this category
UDP floodTeardrop AttackWhat is an ICMP Flood Attack?What Is a Ping Flood?IP fragmentation attackSYN/ACK floodRST/FIN floodSlowloris or session attacksHTTP floodRecursive HTTP GET floodVoIP floodNTP floodDNS AmplificationIP Null AttackUDP floodMITM (man-in-the-middle) attackSIP malformed attackSNMP reflection attackCharGEN floodMS SQL reflection DDoS attackMemcached DDoS attack
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