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Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are a growing threat in network services. The frequency and intensity of DoS attacks are rapidly increasing day by day. The immense financial potential of the Cryptocurrency market is a prevalent target of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Mayank Raikwar , Danilo Gligoroski

Virtually every connection to an Internet service is preceded by a DNS lookup which is performed without any traffic-level protection, thus enabling manipulation, redirection, surveillance, and censorship. To address these issues, large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Sandra Siby , Marc Juarez , Claudia Diaz , Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez , Carmela Troncoso

We unveil the existence of a vulnerability in Wi-Fi, which allows an adversary to remotely launch a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack that propagates both in time and space. This vulnerability stems from a coupling effect induced by hidden…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Liangxiao Xin , David Starobinski , Guevara Noubir

Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) play a key role in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), particularly in enabling real-time communication for emergency vehicles. However, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, which interfere…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Bappa Muktar , Vincent Fono , Adama Nouboukpo

Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions are used to connect private networks securely over the Internet. Besides their benefits in corporate environments, VPNs are also marketed to privacy-minded users to preserve their privacy, and to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Teemu Rytilahti , Thorsten Holz

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

Blockchain technology is widely used in various fields due to its ability to provide decentralization and trustless security. This is a fundamental understanding held by many advocates, but it is misunderstood, leading participants to fail…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Chunyi Zhang , Fengjiao Dou , Xiaoqi Li

Since 2016, sharding has become an auspicious solution to tackle the scalability issue in legacy blockchain systems. Despite its potential to strongly boost the blockchain throughput, sharding comes with its own security issues. To ease the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Truc Nguyen , My T. Thai

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

The traditional design principle for Internet protocols indicates: "Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving" [RFC1958], and DNS is no exception to this. The transparency of DNS in handling the DNS records, also standardised…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Philipp Jeitner , Haya Shulman

Since its introduction in 1987, the DNS has become one of the core components of the Internet. While it was designed to work with both TCP and UDP, DNS-over-UDP (DoUDP) has become the default option due to its low overhead. As new Resource…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Pratyush Dikshit , Mike Kosek , Nils Faulhaber , Jayasree Sengupta , Vaibhav Bajpai

An important challenge for smart grid security is designing a secure and robust smart grid communications architecture to protect against cyber-threats, such as Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, that can adversely impact the operation of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Dennis Agnew , Sharon Boamah , Reynold Mathieu , Austin Cooper , Janise McNair , Arturo Bretas

The Denial of Wallet (DoW) attack poses a unique and growing threat to serverless architectures that rely on Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) models, exploiting the cost structure of pay-as-you-go billing to financially burden application…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Mark Dorsett , Scott Mann , Jabed Chowdhury , Abdun Mahmood

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

We perform a passive measurement study investigating how a Protective DNS service might perform in a Research & Education Network serving hundreds of member institutions. Utilizing freely-available DNS blocklists consisting of domain names…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-30 David Plonka , Branden Palacio , Debbie Perouli

The stability of Internet services is persistently challenged by large volumetric TCP SYN floods, for which conventional defenses such as SYN Cookies preserve server state but still amplify bandwidth pressure. This paper presents SDN-SYN…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Wenyang Jia , Jingjing Wang , Xianneng Zou , Kai Lei

In this paper, we present a study on the recent approaches in handling Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS attack is a fairly new type of attack to cripple the availability of Internet services and resources. A DDos attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-12-15 Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay , Byung-Jun Oh , Sang-Heon Shim , Young-Chon Kim

In this paper, the resilient control for switched systems in the presence of deception attack and denial-of-service (DoS) attack is addressed. Due to the interaction of two kinds of attacks and the asynchronous phenomenon of controller mode…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-13 Rui Zhao , Zhiqiang Zuo , Ying Tan , Yijing Wang , Wentao Zhang

In this paper, we study networked systems in the presence of Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, namely attacks that prevent transmissions over the communication network. Previous studies have shown that co-located architectures (control unit…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Shuai Feng , Pietro Tesi

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