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Neural networks are often trained on proprietary datasets, making them attractive attack targets. We present a novel dataset extraction method leveraging an innovative training time backdoor attack, allowing a malicious federated learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Eden Luzon , Guy Amit , Roy Weiss , Torsten Kraub , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Yisroel Mirsky

Distributed Denial of Service attacks have become a significant threat to industries and governments leading to substantial financial losses. With the growing reliance on internet services, DDoS attacks can disrupt services by overwhelming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Debashis Kar Suvra

This work proposes a novel approach to infer and characterize Internet-scale DNS amplification DDoS attacks by leveraging the darknet space. Complementary to the pioneer work on inferring Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) activities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Claude Fachkha , Elias Bou-Harb , Mourad Debbabi

Despite the proliferation of traffic filtering capabilities throughout the Internet, attackers continue to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to successfully overwhelm the victims with DDoS traffic. In this paper, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jun Li , Devkishen Sisodia , Yebo Feng , Lumin Shi , Mingwei Zhang , Christopher Early , Peter Reiher

The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack stands out as a highly formidable cyber threat, representing an advanced form of the denial-of-service (DoS) attack. A DDoS attack involves multiple computers working together to overwhelm a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Nizo Jaman Shohan , Gazi Tanbhir , Faria Elahi , Ahsan Ullah , Md. Nazmus Sakib

Over the last decade, Web traffic has significantly shifted towards HTTPS due to an increased awareness for privacy. However, DNS traffic is still largely unencrypted, which allows user profiles to be derived from plaintext DNS queries.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Mike Kosek , Luca Schumann , Robin Marx , Trinh Viet Doan , Vaibhav Bajpai

Distributed gradient descent (DGD) is an efficient way of implementing gradient descent (GD), especially for large data sets, by dividing the computation tasks into smaller subtasks and assigning to different computing servers (CSs) to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Emre Ozfatura , Deniz Gunduz , Sennur Ulukus

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks persist as significant threats to online services and infrastructure, evolving rapidly in sophistication and eluding traditional detection mechanisms. This evolution demands a comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Jincheng Wang , Le Yu , John C. S. Lui , Xiapu Luo

An online backup system should be quick and reliable in both saving and restoring users' data. To do so in a peer-to-peer implementation, data transfer scheduling and the amount of redundancy must be chosen wisely. We formalize the problem…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-09-17 Laszlo Toka , Matteo Dell'Amico , Pietro Michiardi

Botnet Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are now 20 years old; what has changed in that time? Their disruptive presence, their volume, distribution across the globe, and the relative ease of launching them have all been trending…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Eric Osterweil , Angelos Stavrou , Lixia Zhang

Denial-of-Service (DoS) threats pose a major challenge to the idea of physical-layer key generation as the underlying wireless channels for key extraction are usually public. Identifying this vulnerability, we study the effect of DoS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Rusni Kima Mangang , J. Harshan

Safety and reliability are important in the cloud computing environment. This is especially true today as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks constitute one of the largest threats faced by Internet users and cloud computing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Marwan Darwish , Abdelkader Ouda , Luiz Fernando Capretz

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have plagued the Internet for decades, but the basic defense approaches have not fundamentally changed. Rather, the size and rate of growth in attacks have actually outpaced carriers' and DDoS…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Zhiyi Zhang , Vishrant Vasavada , Siva Kesava Reddy Kakarla , Angelos Stavrou , Eric Osterweil , Lixia Zhang

Pulse-wave Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks generate short, synchronized bursts of traffic that circumvent pattern-based detection and quickly exhaust traditional defense systems. This transient and spatially distributed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Karim Khamaisi , Pascal Kiechl , Katharina Müller , Burkhard Stiller , Bruno Rodrigues

Real-time cyber-physical systems depend on deterministic task execution to guarantee safety and correctness. Unfortunately, this determinism can unintentionally expose timing information that enables adversaries to infer task execution…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Arkaprava Sain , Sunandan Adhikary , Soumyajit Dey

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks remain a serious threat to online infrastructure, often bypassing detection by altering traffic in subtle ways. We present a method using hive-plot sequences of network data and a 3D…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Landon Bragg , Nathan Dorsey , Josh Prior , John Ajit , Ben Kim , Nate Willis , Pablo Rivas

Privacy leaks are an unfortunate and an integral part of the current Internet domain name resolution. Each DNS query generated by a user reveals -- to one or more DNS servers -- the origin and target of that query. Over time, a user's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Yanbin Lu , Gene Tsudik

Centralized DNS over HTTPS/TLS (DoH/DoT) resolution, which has started being deployed by major hosting providers and web browsers, has sparked controversy among Internet activists and privacy advocates due to several privacy concerns. This…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Nguyen Phong Hoang , Ivan Lin , Seyedhamed Ghavamnia , Michalis Polychronakis

The Internet is composed of Autonomous Systems (ASes) or domains, i.e., networks belonging to different administrative entities. Routing between domains/ASes is realised in a distributed way, over the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Despite…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Pavlos Sermpezis , Xenofontas Dimitropoulos

Multiple probabilistic packet marking (PPM) schemes for IP traceback have been proposed to deal with Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks by reconstructing their attack graphs and identifying the attack sources. In this paper, ten…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Matthias R. Brust , Ankunda R. Kiremire