In which TCP attack is the cybercriminal attempting to overwhelm a target host with half-open TCP connections?

Question:
In which TCP attack is the cybercriminal attempting to overwhelm a target host with half-open TCP connections?

• port scan attack
• SYN flood attack
• session hijacking attack
• reset attack

Explanation: In a TCP SYN flood attack, the attacker sends to the target host a continuous flood of TCP SYN session requests with a spoofed source IP address. The target host responds with a TCP-SYN-ACK to each of the SYN session requests and waits for a TCP ACK that will never arrive. Eventually the target is overwhelmed with half-open TCP connections.

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