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As IoT deployments grow in scale for applications such as smart cities, they face increasing cyber-security threats. In particular, as evidenced by the famous Mirai incident and other ongoing threats, large-scale IoT device networks are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Arvin Hekmati , Eugenio Grippo , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

Internet of Things (IoT) is highly vulnerable to emerging Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) that are often operated by well-resourced adversaries. Achieving perfect security for IoT networks is often cost-prohibitive if not impossible.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Rui Zhang , Quanyan Zhu

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

In current Internet-of-Things (IoT) deployments, a mix of traditional IP networking and IoT specific protocols, both relying on the TCP protocol, can be used to transport data from a source to a destination. Therefore, TCP-specific attacks,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Pheeha Machaka , Olasupo Ajayi , Hloniphani Maluleke , Ferdinand Kahenga , Antoine Bagula , Kyandoghere Kyamakya

In cloud computing, network Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are well studied and defenses have been implemented, but severe DoS attacks on a victim's working memory by a single hostile VM are not well understood. Memory DoS attacks are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-05 Tianwei Zhang , Yinqian Zhang , Ruby B. Lee

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

The 911 emergency service belongs to one of the 16 critical infrastructure sectors in the United States. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks launched from a mobile phone botnet pose a significant threat to the availability of this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Mordechai Guri , Yisroel Mirsky , Yuval Elovici

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks make the challenges to provide the services of the data resources to the web clients. In this paper, we concern to study and apply different Machine Learning (ML) techniques to separate the DDoS…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Md. Abdur Rahman

Detection-based security fails against sophisticated attackers using encryption, stealth, and low-rate techniques, particularly in IoT/edge environments where resource constraints preclude ML-based intrusion detection. We present Economic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Samaresh Kumar Singh , Joyjit Roy

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks represent a persistent threat to modern telecommunications networks: detecting and counteracting them is still a crucial unresolved challenge for network operators. DDoS attack detection is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Damu Ding , Marco Savi , Domenico Siracusa

Detecting Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks remains a critical challenge in cybersecurity. This research introduces a hybrid deep learning model combining Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs) and a Neural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Caroline Panggabean , Chandrasekar Venkatachalam , Priyanka Shah , Sincy John , Renuka Devi P , Shanmugavalli Venkatachalam

Distributed online learning in Internet of Things(IoT)-enabled multi-agent systems(MASs) is highly vulnerable to persistent adversarial interactions, particularly when malicious agents cannot be fully isolated during the transient learning…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yuhan Suo , Runqi Chai , Senchun Chai , Xudong Zhao , Yuanqing Xia

The severity of amplification attacks has grown in recent years. Since 2013 there have been at least two attacks which involved over 300Gbps of attack traffic. This paper offers an analysis of these and many other amplification attacks. We…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Fabrice J. Ryba , Matthew Orlinski , Matthias Wählisch , Christian Rossow , Thomas C. Schmidt

We present a comprehensive study on applying machine learning to detect distributed Denial of service (DDoS) attacks using large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) systems. While prior works and existing DDoS attacks have largely focused on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Arvin Hekmati , Nishant Jethwa , Eugenio Grippo , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

Since it is impossible to predict and identify all the vulnerabilities of a network, and penetration into a system by malicious intruders cannot always be prevented, intrusion detection systems (IDSs) are essential entities for ensuring the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Jaydip Sen

In light of rising cybersecurity threats, data center providers face growing pressure to protect their own management infrastructure from Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. While tenant-managed cages generally fall outside the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Kartikeya Sharma , Craig Jacobik

The growing complexity of Internet of Things (IoT) environments, particularly in cross-domain data sharing, presents significant security challenges. Existing data-sharing schemes often rely on computationally expensive cryptographic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Kexian Liu , Jianfeng Guan , Xiaolong Hu , Jianli Liu , Hongke Zhang

Denial-of-Service attacks continue to be a serious problem for the Internet community despite the fact that a large number of defense approaches has been proposed by the research community. In this paper we introduce IP Fast Hopping, easily…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-03-31 Vladimir Krylov , Kirill Kravtsov

The distributed nature of local differential privacy (LDP) invites data poisoning attacks and poses unforeseen threats to the underlying LDP-supported applications. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive mitigation framework for popular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Xiaolin Li , Ninghui Li , Boyang Wang , Wenhai Sun

As the frequency and complexity of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks continue to increase, the level of threats posed to Smart Internet of Things (SIoT) business environments have also increased. These environments generally have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Oghenetejiri Okporokpo , Funminiyi Olajide , Nemitari Ajienka , Xiaoqi Ma