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Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service of Service (DDoS) attacks are commonly used to disrupt network services. Attack techniques are always improving and due to the structure of the internet and properties of network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Jonah Burgess

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are usually launched through the $botnet$, an "army" of compromised nodes hidden in the network. Inferential tools for DDoS mitigation should accordingly enable an early and reliable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Vincenzo Matta , Mario Di Mauro , Maurizio Longo

Recent years witnessed a surge in network traffic due to the emergence of new online services, causing periodic saturation and complexity problems. Additionally, the growing number of IoT devices further compounds the problem. Software…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Jaime Tamayo , Lorena Isabel Barona López , Ángel Leonardo Valdivieso Caraguay

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks pose a significant threat to the stability and reliability of online systems. Effective and early detection of such attacks is pivotal for safeguarding the integrity of networks. In this work, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Ali Alfatemi , Mohamed Rahouti , Ruhul Amin , Sarah ALJamal , Kaiqi Xiong , Yufeng Xin

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

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are a constant threat for services in the Internet. This year, the record for the largest DDoS attack ever observed was set at 1.7 Tbps. Meanwhile, detection and mitigation mechanisms are still…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Thomas Lukaseder , Shreya Ghosh , Frank Kargl

Denial-of-service (DOS) attacks increasingly gained reputation over the past few years. As the Internet becomes more ubiquitous, the threat of the denial-of-service attacks becomes more realistic and important for individuals, businesses,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-06-15 Neetu Singh , S. P. Ghrera , Pranay Chaudhuri

A malicious attempt to exhaust a victim's resources to cause it to crash or halt its services is known as a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. DDOS attacks stop authorized users from accessing specific services available on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Azadeh Golduzian

Distributed Reflective Denial of Service (DRDoS) attacks are an immanent threat to Internet services. The potential scale of such attacks became apparent in March 2018 when a memcached-based attack peaked at 1.7 Tbps. Novel services built…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Thomas Lukaseder , Kevin Stölzle , Stephan Kleber , Benjamin Erb , Frank Kargl

One of the most difficult challenges in cybersecurity is eliminating Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Automating this task using artificial intelligence is a complex process due to the inherent class imbalance and lack of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Ehsan Hallaji , Vaishnavi Shanmugam , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Mehrdad Saif

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks pose an increasingly substantial cybersecurity threat to organizations across the globe. In this paper, we introduce a new deep learning-based technique for detecting DDoS attacks, a paramount…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Fernando Martinez , Mariyam Mapkar , Ali Alfatemi , Mohamed Rahouti , Yufeng Xin , Kaiqi Xiong , Nasir Ghani

With the growing realization that current Internet protocols are reaching the limits of their senescence, a number of on-going research efforts aim to design potential next-generation Internet architectures. Although they vary in maturity…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-08-08 Paolo Gasti , Gene Tsudik , Ersin Uzun , Lixia Zhang

The wireless ad hoc networks are highly vulnerable to distributed denial of service(DDoS) attacks because of its unique characteristics such as open network architecture, shared wireless medium and stringent resource constraints. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-06-08 S. A. Arunmozhi , Y. Venkataramani

This paper forecasts future Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks using deep learning models. Although several studies address forecasting DDoS attacks, they remain relatively limited compared to detection-focused research. By…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Kong Mun Yeen , Rafidah Md Noor , Wahidah Md Shah , Aslinda Hassan , Muhammad Umair Munir

Low-rate application layer distributed denial of service (LDDoS) attacks are both powerful and stealthy. They force vulnerable webservers to open all available connections to the adversary, denying resources to real users. Mitigation advice…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Michael Siracusano , Stavros Shiaeles , Bogdan Ghita

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

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

DDoS attacks are one of the most prevalent and harmful cybersecurity threats faced by organizations and individuals today. In recent years, the complexity and frequency of DDoS attacks have increased significantly, making it challenging to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Zain Ahmad , Musab Ahmad , Bilal Ahmad

Slow-running attacks against network applications are often not easy to detect, as the attackers behave according to the specification. The servers of many network applications are not prepared for such attacks, either due to missing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Thomas Lukaseder , Lisa Maile , Benjamin Erb , Frank Kargl

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