What type of attack sends SYN requests to a target system with spoofed IP addresses?
What type of attack sends SYN requests to a target system with spoofed IP addresses?
The type of attack that sends SYN requests to a target system with spoofed IP addresses is known as a SYN flood. In a SYN flood attack, the attacker exploits the TCP three-way handshake process by sending TCP SYN packets with spoofed IP addresses to a target system. The target system responds with SYN-ACK packets but awaits the final ACK packet from the non-existent spoofed IP addresses, leading to a large number of half-open connections. This exhausts the resources of the target system, causing disruption in normal communication.
The type of attack that sends SYN requests to a target system with spoofed IP addresses is known as a SYN flood. In this attack, the attacker overwhelms the target system by flooding it with SYN requests, causing resource exhaustion and disrupting normal communication.