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Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have emerged as a popular means of causing mass targeted service disruptions, often for extended periods of time. The relative ease and low costs of launching such attacks, supplemented by the…

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Cybersecurity is a domain where the data distribution is constantly changing with attackers exploring newer patterns to attack cyber infrastructure. Intrusion detection system is one of the important layers in cyber safety in today's world.…

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Software-Defined Networking (SDN) provides flexible and programmable network management; however, its centralized control architecture remains highly vulnerable to Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, particularly Carpet-Bombing…

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The increasing number of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks poses a major threat to the Internet, highlighting the importance of DDoS mitigation. Most existing approaches require complex training methods to learn data features,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Zhenyu Yin , Shang Liu , Guangyuan Xu

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is an attack wherein multiple compromised computer systems flood the bandwidth and/or resources of a target, such as a server, website or other network resource, and cause a denial of service…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Rajat Tandon

Machine Learning (ML) has proven to be effective in many application domains. However, ML methods can be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, in which an attacker tries to fool the classification/prediction mechanism by crafting the input…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Maged Abdelaty , Sandra Scott-Hayward , Roberto Doriguzzi-Corin , Domenico Siracusa

Mitigating Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks is vital for online service security and availability. While machine learning (ML) models are used for DoS attack detection, new strategies are needed to enhance their performance. We suggest an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Evans Owusu , Mohamed Rahouti , D. Frank Hsu , Kaiqi Xiong , Yufeng Xin

In the recent years, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on Internet of Things (IoT) devices have become one of the prime concerns to Internet users around the world. One of the sources of the attacks on IoT ecosystems are botnets.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Kumar Saurabh , Tanuj Kumar , Uphar Singh , O. P. Vyas , Rahamatullah Khondoker

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks threaten the availability of Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructures, particularly under resource-constrained deployment conditions. Although transfer learning models have shown promising…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Nelly Elsayed

Machine Learning (ML) techniques are increasingly adopted to tackle ever-evolving high-profile network attacks, including DDoS, botnet, and ransomware, due to their unique ability to extract complex patterns hidden in data streams. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Haoyu Liu , Paul Patras

The exponential increase in the number of malicious threats on computer networks and Internet services due to a large number of attacks makes the network security at continuous risk. One of the most prevalent network attacks that threaten…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Ghazi Al-Naymat , Mouhammd Al-kasassbeh , Eshraq Al-Hawari

Malware applications typically use a command and control (C&C) server to manage bots to perform malicious activities. Domain Generation Algorithms (DGAs) are popular methods for generating pseudo-random domain names that can be used to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Raaghavi Sivaguru , Jonathan Peck , Femi Olumofin , Anderson Nascimento , Martine De Cock

The emergence of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has changed the network structure by separating the control plane from the data plane. However, this innovation has also increased susceptibility to DDoS attacks. Existing detection…

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Numerous malware families rely on domain generation algorithms (DGAs) to establish a connection to their command and control (C2) server. Counteracting DGAs, several machine learning classifiers have been proposed enabling the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Arthur Drichel , Nils Faerber , Ulrike Meyer

Botnets and malware continue to avoid detection by static rules engines when using domain generation algorithms (DGAs) for callouts to unique, dynamically generated web addresses. Common DGA detection techniques fail to reliably detect DGA…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Kate Highnam , Domenic Puzio , Song Luo , Nicholas R. Jennings

Various families of malware use domain generation algorithms (DGAs) to generate a large number of pseudo-random domain names to connect to a command and control (C&C) server. In order to block DGA C&C traffic, security organizations must…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Jonathan Woodbridge , Hyrum S. Anderson , Anjum Ahuja , Daniel Grant

Modern malware families often rely on domain-generation algorithms (DGAs) to determine rendezvous points to their command-and-control server. Traditional defence strategies (such as blacklisting domains or IP addresses) are inadequate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Pierre Lison , Vasileios Mavroeidis

Due to their massive success in various domains, deep learning techniques are increasingly used to design network intrusion detection solutions that detect and mitigate unknown and known attacks with high accuracy detection rates and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Huda Ali Alatwi , Charles Morisset

Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service of Service (DDoS) attacks are commonly used to disrupt network services. Attack techniques are always improving and due to the structure of the internet and properties of network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Jonah Burgess

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