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As the current detection solutions of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) need additional infrastructures to handle high aggregate data rates, they are not suitable for sensor networks or the Internet of Things. Besides, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Emre Horsanali , Yagmur Yigit , Gokhan Secinti , Aytac Karameseoglu , Berk Canberk

Botnets are computer networks controlled by malicious actors that present significant cybersecurity challenges. They autonomously infect, propagate, and coordinate to conduct cybercrimes, necessitating robust detection methods. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Rahul Yumlembam , Biju Issac , Seibu Mary Jacob , Longzhi Yang

IThe botnet is considered as a critical issue of the Internet due to its fast growing mechanism and affect. Recently, Botnets have utilized the DNS and query DNS server just like any legitimate hosts. In this case, it is difficult to…

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Network attacks have been very prevalent as their rate is growing tremendously. Both organization and individuals are now concerned about their confidentiality, integrity and availability of their critical information which are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-07 MohammadNoor Injadat , Fadi Salo , Ali Bou Nassif , Aleksander Essex , Abdallah Shami

Botnets are one of the online threats with the biggest presence, causing billionaire losses to global economies. Nowadays, the increasing number of devices connected to the Internet makes it necessary to analyze large amounts of network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Javier Velasco-Mata , Víctor González-Castro , Eduardo Fidalgo , Enrique Alegre

The presence of a large number of bots on social media leads to adverse effects. Although Random forest algorithm is widely used in bot detection and can significantly enhance the performance of weak classifiers, it cannot utilize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Shuhao Shi , Kai Qiao , Jie Yang , Baojie Song , Jian Chen , Bin Yan

The development of the Internet of Things (IoT) has dramatically expanded our daily lives, playing a pivotal role in the enablement of smart cities, healthcare, and buildings. Emerging technologies, such as IoT, seek to improve the quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Neveen Hijazi , Moayad Aloqaily , Bassem Ouni , Fakhri Karray , Merouane Debbah

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 Domain Name System (DNS) comprises name servers translating domain names into, commonly, IP addresses. Authoritative name servers hosts the resource records (RR) for certain zones, and resolver name servers are responsible for querying…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Jonathan Magnusson

Botnets represent a global problem and are responsible for causing large financial and operational damage to their victims. They are implemented with evasion in mind, and aim at hiding their architecture and authors, making them difficult…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-11-03 Pedro Camelo , Joao Moura , Ludwig Krippahl

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

Botnets are becoming increasingly prevalent as the primary enabling technology in a variety of malicious campaigns such as email spam, click fraud, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and cryptocurrency mining. Botnet technology…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Kapil Sinha , Arun Viswanathan , Julian Bunn

An application of software known as an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) employs machine algorithms to identify network intrusions. Selective logging, safeguarding privacy, reputation-based defense against numerous attacks, and dynamic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Muhammad Zawad Mahmud , Samiha Islam , Shahran Rahman Alve , Al Jubayer Pial

DGA-based botnet, which uses Domain Generation Algorithms (DGAs) to evade supervision, has become a part of the most destructive threats to network security. Over the past decades, a wealth of defense mechanisms focusing on domain features…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Xin Fang , Xiaoqing Sun , Jiahai Yang , Xinran Liu

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging paradigm, which evolved in recent years to address the weaknesses in traditional networks. The significant feature of the SDN, which is achieved by disassociating the control plane from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Mahmoud Said Elsayed , Nhien-An Le-Khac , Soumyabrata Dev , Anca Delia Jurcut

In the recent years, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on Internet of Things (IoT) devices have become one of the prime concerns to Internet users around the world. One of the sources of the attacks on IoT ecosystems are botnets.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Kumar Saurabh , Tanuj Kumar , Uphar Singh , O. P. Vyas , Rahamatullah Khondoker

Machine learning (ML) started to become widely deployed in cyber security settings for shortening the detection cycle of cyber attacks. To date, most ML-based systems are either proprietary or make specific choices of feature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Talha Ongun , Timothy Sakharaov , Simona Boboila , Alina Oprea , Tina Eliassi-Rad

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

Traditional network intrusion detection approaches encounter feasibility and sustainability issues to combat modern, sophisticated, and unpredictable security attacks. Deep neural networks (DNN) have been successfully applied for intrusion…

Over the past decade, the Cyberspace has seen an increasing number of attacks coming from botnets using the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) architecture. Peer-to-Peer botnets use a decentralized Command & Control architecture. Moreover, a large number…

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