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Security has become ubiquitous in every domain today as newly emerging malware pose an ever-increasing perilous threat to systems. Consequently, honeypots are fast emerging as an indispensible forensic tool for the analysis of malicious…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-12-14 Shishir Kumar , Durgesh Pant

Honeypots, i.e. networked computer systems specially designed and crafted to mimic the normal operations of other systems while capturing and storing information about the interactions with the world outside, are a crucial technology into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Michele Bombardieri , Salvatore Castanò , Fabrizio Curcio , Angelo Furfaro , Helen D. Karatza

In this paper, we revisit the use of honeypots for detecting reflective amplification attacks. These measurement tools require careful design of both data collection and data analysis including cautious threshold inference. We survey common…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Marcin Nawrocki , John Kristoff , Raphael Hiesgen , Chris Kanich , Thomas C. Schmidt , Matthias Wählisch

Today, internet and web services have become an inseparable part of our lives. Hence, ensuring continuous availability of service has become imperative to the success of any organization. But these services are often hampered by constant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-08-21 Hrishikesh Arun Deshpande

The Internet Threat Monitoring (ITM),is a globally scoped Internet monitoring system whose goal is to measure, detect, characterize, and track threats such as distribute denial of service(DDoS) attacks and worms. To block the monitoring…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-01-13 K. Munivara Prasad , A. Rama Mohan Reddy , M. Ganesh Karthik

The convergence of information and operational technology networks has created previously unforeseen security issues. To address these issues, both researchers and practitioners have integrated threat intelligence methods into the security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Jacob Williams , Matthew Edwards , Joseph Gardiner

As IoT devices are becoming widely deployed, there exist many threats to IoT-based systems due to their inherent vulnerabilities. One effective approach to improving IoT security is to deploy IoT honeypot systems, which can collect attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Chongqi Guan , Heting Liu , Guohong Cao , Sencun Zhu , Thomas La Porta

Computer security has been plagued by increasing formidable, dynamic, hard-to-detect, hard-to-predict, and hard-to-characterize hacking techniques. Such techniques are very often deployed in self-propagating worms capable of automatically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Valentino Crespi , Wes Hardaker , Sami Abu-El-Haija , Aram Galstyan

The Internet of Things (IoT), the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) have become essential for our daily lives in contexts such as our homes, buildings, cities, health, transportation, manufacturing,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Javier Franco , Ahmet Aris , Berk Canberk , A. Selcuk Uluagac

The Internet Threat Monitoring (ITM) is an efficient monitoring system used globally to measure, detect, characterize and track threats such as denial of service (DoS) and distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and worms. . To block…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-02-22 K. Munivara Prasad , A. Rama Mohan Reddy , V Jyothsna

Honeypots are deception systems that emulate vulnerable services to collect threat intelligence. While deploying many honeypots increases the opportunity to observe attacker behaviour, in practise network and computational resources limit…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Federico Mirra , Matteo Boffa , Idilio Drago , Danilo Giordano , Marco Mellia

Honeypots play a crucial role in implementing various cyber deception techniques as they possess the capability to divert attackers away from valuable assets. Careful strategic placement of honeypots in networks should consider not only…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Md Abu Sayed , Ahmed H. Anwar , Christopher Kiekintveld , Charles Kamhoua

The increasing sophistication of cyber threats demands novel approaches to characterize adversarial strategies, particularly those targeting critical infrastructure and IoT ecosystems. This paper presents a longitudinal analysis of attacker…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Tonia Haikal , Eman Hammad , Shereen Ismail

Cyber-systems are under near-constant threat from intrusion attempts. Attacks types vary, but each attempt typically has a specific underlying intent, and the perpetrators are typically groups of individuals with similar objectives.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Francesco Sanna Passino , Anastasia Mantziou , Daniyar Ghani , Philip Thiede , Ross Bevington , Nicholas A. Heard

Cybersecurity threats continue to increase, with a growing number of previously unknown attacks each year targeting both large corporations and smaller entities. This scenario demands the implementation of advanced security measures, not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Javier Jiménez-Román , Florina Almenares-Mendoza , Alfonso Sánchez-Macián

Honeypots are designed to trap the attacker with the purpose of investigating its malicious behavior. Owing to the increasing variety and sophistication of cyber attacks, how to capture high-quality attack data has become a challenge in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Wenjun Fan , Zhihui Du , Max Smith-Creasey , David Fernández

Current tools and systems of detecting vulnerabilities simply alert the administrator of attempted attacks against his network or system. However, generally, the huge number of alerts to analyze and the amount time required to update…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Abdeljalil Agnaou , Anas Abou El Kalam , Abdellah Ait Ouahman , Mina De Montfort

Honeypots are used in IT Security to detect and gather information about ongoing intrusions, e.g., by documenting the approach of an attacker. Honeypots do so by presenting an interactive system that seems just like a valid application to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Christoph Pohl , Michael Meier , Hans-Joachim Hof

Question-and-answer agents like ChatGPT offer a novel tool for use as a potential honeypot interface in cyber security. By imitating Linux, Mac, and Windows terminal commands and providing an interface for TeamViewer, nmap, and ping, it is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Forrest McKee , David Noever

Defending against sophisticated cyber threats demands strategic allocation of limited security resources across complex network infrastructures. When the defender has limited defensive resources, the complexity of coordinating honeypot…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Dongyoung Park , Gaby G. Dagher