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The significance of the DDoS problem and the increased occurrence, sophistication and strength of attacks has led to the dawn of numerous prevention mechanisms. Each proposed prevention mechanism has some unique advantages and disadvantages…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-20 B. B. Gupta , R. C. Joshi , Manoj Misra

Distributed denial of service(DDos) attack is ongoing dangerous threat to the Internet. Commonly, DDos attacks are carried out at the network layer, e.g. SYN flooding, ICMP flooding and UDP flooding, which are called Distributed denial of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Prajwal R Thakare , K. Hanumantha Rao

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

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

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are one of the most challenging threats to Internet security. An attacker typically compromises a large number of vulnerable hosts and uses them to flood the victim's site with malicious traffic, clogging its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-10-26 Katerina J. Argyraki , David R. Cheriton

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are getting increasingly harmful to the Internet, showing no signs of slowing down. Developing an accurate detection mechanism to thwart DDoS attacks is still a big challenge due to the rich…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Raja Giryes , Lior Shafir , Avishai Wool

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

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

The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is detrimental to businesses and individuals as people are heavily relying on the Internet. Due to remarkable profits, crackers favor DDoS as cybersecurity weapons to attack a victim. Even…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Jianhua Li , Ximeng Liu , Jiong JIn , Shui Yu

Volumetric Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have been a recurrent issue on the Internet. These attacks generate a flooding of fake network traffic to interfere with targeted servers or network links. Despite many efforts to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Michele Nogueira

Botnets are prevailing mechanisms for the facilitation of the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on computer networks or applications. Currently, Botnet-based DDoS attacks on the application layer are latest and most problematic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-03 Esraa Alomari , Selvakumar Manickam , B. B. Gupta , Shankar Karuppayah , Rafeef Alfaris

The increasing popularity of web-based applications has led to several critical services being provided over the Internet. This has made it imperative to monitor the network traffic so as to prevent malicious attackers from depleting the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-01-17 Jaydip Sen

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have become increasingly prevalent and dangerous in the context of Internet of Things (IoT) networks, primarily due to the low-security configurations of many connected devices. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Ifiyemi Leigha , Basak Comlekcioglu , Maria Pilar Bezanilla

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks exhaust resources, leaving a server unavailable to legitimate clients. The Domain Name System (DNS) is a frequent target of DDoS attacks. Since DNS is a critical infrastructure service,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-16 A S M Rizvi , Jelena Mirkovic , John Heidemann , Wesley Hardaker , Robert Story

Defending against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the Internet is a fundamental problem. However, recent industrial interviews with over 100 security experts from more than ten industry segments indicate that DDoS problems…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Zhuotao Liu , Yuan Cao , Min Zhu , Wei Ge

Denial of service (DoS) attacks and more particularly the distributed ones (DDoS) are one of the latest threat and pose a grave danger to users, organizations and infrastructures of the Internet. Several schemes have been proposed on how to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-04-26 B. B. Gupta , R. C. Joshi , Manoj Misra

DDoS attacks, also known as distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, have emerged as one of the most serious and fastest-growing threats on the Internet. Denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are an example of cyber attacks that target a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Anupama Mishra

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack becomes a rapidly growing problem with the fast development of the Internet. The existing DDoS attack detection methods have time-delay and low detection rate. This paper presents a DDoS attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Jing Chen , Xiangyan Tang , Jieren Cheng , Fengkai Wang , Ruomeng Xu

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks represent a cost-effective and potent threat to network stability. While extensively studied in IPv4 networks, DDoS implications in IPv6 remain underexplored. The vast IPv6 address space renders…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Ling Hu , Tao Yang , Yu Pang , Bingnan Hou , Zhiping Cai , Bo Yu

Pushback is a mechanism for defending against Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS attacks are treated as a congestion-control problem, but because most such congestion is caused by malicious hosts not obeying traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-01-11 Saravanan Kumarasamy , R. Asokan