The SYN flood is used for DDoS attacks, where the attacker initiates an SYN packet connection to a server but does not finalize the connection.
Since an SYN packet is a three-way handshake used to establish a connection, the target server waits for a half-opened connection, consuming resources and making the victim unresponsive to other legitimate traffic.
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