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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) is a common type of Cybercrime. It can strongly damage a company reputation and increase its costs. Attackers improve continuously their strategies. They doubled the amount of unleashed communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Michele Nogueira , Augusto Almeida Santos , José M. F. Moura

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

The 2016 is remembered as the year that showed to the world how dangerous Distributed Denial of Service attacks can be. Gauge of the disruptiveness of DDoS attacks is the number of bots involved: the bigger the botnet, the more powerful the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Michele De Donno , Nicola Dragoni , Alberto Giaretta , Manuel Mazzara

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

The Internet of Things (IoT) has garnered significant interest in both research and industry due to its profound impact on human life. The rapid expansion of IoT technology has ushered in smart healthcare, smart devices, smart cities, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Zainab Alwaisi , Simone Soderi , Rocco De Nicola

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks form a serious threat to the security of Internet services. However, despite over a decade of research, and the existence of several proposals to address this problem, there has been little…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-09-03 Prateek Mittal , Dongho Kim , Yih-Chun Hu , Matthew Caesar

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

The rapid proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) has ushered in transformative connectivity between physical devices and the digital realm. Nonetheless, the escalating threat of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Ghazaleh Shirvani , Saeid Ghasemshirazi , Mohammad Ali Alipour

The rapid increase of diverse Internet of things (IoT) services and devices has raised numerous challenges in terms of connectivity, computation, and security, which networks must face in order to provide satisfactory support. This has led…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Nhu-Ngoc Dao , Trung V. Phan , Umar Sa ad , Joongheon Kim , Thomas Bauschert , Sungrae Cho

Security issues related to the cloud computing are relevant to various stakeholders for an informed cloud adoption decision. Apart from data breaches, the cyber security research community is revisiting the attack space for cloud-specific…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Gaurav Somani , Manoj Singh Gaur , Dheeraj Sanghi , Mauro Conti , Rajkumar Buyya

Enterprise networks that host valuable assets and services are popular and frequent targets of distributed network attacks. In order to cope with the ever-increasing threats, industrial and research communities develop systems and methods…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Minzhao Lyu , Hassan Habibi Gharakheili , Vijay Sivaraman

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

Internet of Things (IoT) networks consist of sensors, actuators, mobile and wearable devices that can connect to the Internet. With billions of such devices already in the market which have significant vulnerabilities, there is a dangerous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Keval Doshi , Yasin Yilmaz , Suleyman Uludag

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

It has been known that heterogeneous networks are vulnerable to the intentional removal of a small fraction of highly connected or loaded nodes, which implies that, to protect a network effectively, a few important nodes should be allocated…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Xingang Wang , Shuguang Guan , Choy Heng Lai

Low rate Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks have emerged as a major threat to containerized cloud infrastructures. Due to their low traffic volumes, these attacks can be difficult to detect and mitigate, potentially causing serious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Ahmad Fareed , Bilal Al Habib , Anne Pepita Francis

Permissionless distributed ledgers provide a promising approach to deal with the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm. Since IoT devices mostly generate data transactions and micropayments, distributed ledgers that use fees to regulate the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Vidal Attias , Luigi Vigneri , Vassil Dimitrov

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

More and more industrial devices are connected to IP-based networks, as this is essential for the success of Industry 4.0. However, this interconnection also results in an increased attack surface for various network-based attacks. One of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Florian Fischer , Matthias Niedermaier , Thomas Hanka , Peter Knauer , Dominik Merli