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Domain Name System (DNS) is a crucial component of current IP-based networks as it is the standard mechanism for name to IP resolution. However, due to its lack of data integrity and origin authentication processes, it is vulnerable to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Abdallah Moubayed , MohammadNoor Injadat , Abdallah Shami , Hanan Lutfiyya

Understanding what is normal is a key aspect of protecting a domain. Other domains invest heavily in observational science to develop models of normal behavior to better detect anomalies. Recent advances in high performance graph libraries,…

Anomaly detection is generally acknowledged as an important problem that has already drawn attention to various domains and research areas, such as, network security. For such "classic" application domains a wide range of surveys and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Kristof Böhmer , Stefanie Rinderle-Ma

One of the most common causes of lack of continuity of online systems stems from a widely popular Cyber Attack known as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), in which a network of infected devices (botnet) gets exploited to flood the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Giorgio Piras , Maura Pintor , Luca Demetrio , Battista Biggio

Peer-to-peer (P2P) botnets have become one of the major threats in network security for serving as the infrastructure that responsible for various of cyber-crimes. Though a few existing work claimed to detect traditional botnets…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Di Zhuang , J. Morris Chang

The adoption of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) as a complementary technology to Operational Technology (OT) has enabled a new level of standardised data access and process visibility. This convergence of Information Technology…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Martin Dobler , Michael Hellwig , Nuno Lopes , Ken Oakley , Mike Winterburn

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have become more prominent recently, both in frequency of occurrence, as well as magnitude. Such attacks render key Internet resources unavailable and disrupt its normal operation. It is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-12-22 Michael Kallitsis , Stilian Stoev , George Michailidis

Computer security has been plagued by increasing formidable, dynamic, hard-to-detect, hard-to-predict, and hard-to-characterize hacking techniques. Such techniques are very often deployed in self-propagating worms capable of automatically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Valentino Crespi , Wes Hardaker , Sami Abu-El-Haija , Aram Galstyan

One of the most critical components of the Internet that an attacker could exploit is the DNS (Domain Name System) protocol and infrastructure. Researchers have been constantly developing methods to detect and defend against the attacks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Abdullah Aydeger , Pei Zhou , Sanzida Hoque , Marco Carvalho , Engin Zeydan

The problem of anomaly detection has been studied for a long time. In short, anomalies are abnormal or unlikely things. In financial networks, thieves and illegal activities are often anomalous in nature. Members of a network want to detect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Thai Pham , Steven Lee

Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet. A DNS resolves queries for URLs into IP addresses for the purpose of locating computer services and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Altan Cakir , Yousef Alkhanafseh , Esra Karabiyik , Erhan Kurubas , Rabia Burcu Bunyak , Cenk Anil Bahcevan

A novel class of extreme link-flooding DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks is designed to cut off entire geographical areas such as cities and even countries from the Internet by simultaneously targeting a selected set of network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Mostafa Rezazad , Matthias R. Brust , Mohammad Akbari , Pascal Bouvry , Ngai-Man Cheung

In this paper we introduce an intrusion detection system for Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against Domain Name System (DNS). Our system architecture consists of two most important parts: a statistical preprocessor and a neural network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-12-10 Samaneh Rastegari , M. Iqbal Saripan , Mohd Fadlee A. Rasid

In the Internet of Things (IoT) devices are exposed to various kinds of attacks when connected to the Internet. An attack detection mechanism that understands the limitations of these severely resource-constrained devices is necessary. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Nidhi Rastogi , James Hendler

Knowing customer's interests, e.g. which Video-On-Demand (VoD) or Social Network services they are using, helps telecommunication companies with better network planning to enhance the performance exactly where the customer's interests lie,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Aniss Maghsoudlou , Oliver Gasser , Ingmar Poese , Anja Feldmann

Booter services continue to provide popular DDoS-as-a-service platforms and enable anyone irrespective of their technical ability, to execute DDoS attacks with devastating impact. Since booters are a serious threat to Internet operations…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Daniel Kopp , Matthias Wichtlhuber , Ingmar Poese , Jair Santanna , Oliver Hohlfeld , Christoph Dietzel

The rise of automated scanning tools and AI assisted reconnaissance agents has significantly altered internet background traffic patterns, threatening the baseline assumptions underlying intrusion detection systems (IDS) deployed in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Alex Carbajal , Caleb Faultersack , Jonahtan Vasquez , Shereen Ismail , Asma Jodeiri Akbarfam

The current paper addresses relevant network security vulnerabilities introduced by network devices within the emerging paradigm of Internet of Things (IoT) as well as the urgent need to mitigate the negative effects of some types of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Pedro Manso , Jose Moura , Carlos Serrao

Botnets are among the most persistent cyber threats, enabling large-scale attacks such as spam, credential theft, and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS). While deep learning approaches have recently been applied to botnet detection, they…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Subhash Gurappa , Yashas Hariprasad , Sundararaj Sitharama Iyengar , Naveen Kumar Chaudhary

The accelerated development of social media websites has posed intricate security issues in cyberspace, where these sites have increasingly become victims of criminal activities including attempts to intrude into them, abnormal traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Aditi Sanjay Agrawal