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Recently, advances in deep learning have been observed in various fields, including computer vision, natural language processing, and cybersecurity. Machine learning (ML) has demonstrated its ability as a potential tool for anomaly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-31 D'Jeff Kanda Nkashama , Arian Soltani , Jean-Charles Verdier , Marc Frappier , Pierre-Martin Tardif , Froduald Kabanza

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

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) is a promising approach to tackle the increasing sophistication of cyberattacks. However, since Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Miguel Silva , Daniela Pinto , João Vitorino , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça , Ivone Amorim , Maria João Viamonte

Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced text understanding and generation, becoming integral to applications across education, software development, healthcare, entertainment, and legal services. Despite considerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Junzhe Yu , Yi Liu , Huijia Sun , Ling Shi , Yuqi Chen

Detection of emerging attacks on network infrastructure is a critical aspect of security management. To meet the growing scale and complexity of modern threats, machine learning (ML) techniques offer valuable tools for automating the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Aleksandra Knapińska , Marija Furdek

The widespread adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has introduced significant cybersecurity challenges, particularly with the increasing frequency and sophistication of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Satvik Verma , Qun Wang , E. Wes Bethel

Modern malware typically makes use of a domain generation algorithm (DGA) to avoid command and control domains or IPs being seized or sinkholed. This means that an infected system may attempt to access many domains in an attempt to contact…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Ryan R. Curtin , Andrew B. Gardner , Slawomir Grzonkowski , Alexey Kleymenov , Alejandro Mosquera

Many malware families utilize domain generation algorithms (DGAs) to establish command and control (C&C) connections. While there are many methods to pseudorandomly generate domains, we focus in this paper on detecting (and generating)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Hyrum S. Anderson , Jonathan Woodbridge , Bobby Filar

Malware detection is a constant challenge in cybersecurity due to the rapid development of new attack techniques. Traditional signature-based approaches struggle to keep pace with the sheer volume of malware samples. Machine learning offers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Peter Anthony , Francesco Giannini , Michelangelo Diligenti , Martin Homola , Marco Gori , Stefan Balogh , Jan Mojzis

DDoS attacks are simple, effective, and still pose a significant threat even after more than two decades. Given the recent success in machine learning, it is interesting to investigate how we can leverage deep learning to filter out…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Wesley Joon-Wie Tann , Jackie Tan Jin Wei , Joanna Purba , Ee-Chien Chang

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks pose a significant threat to the stability and reliability of online systems. Effective and early detection of such attacks is pivotal for safeguarding the integrity of networks. In this work, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Ali Alfatemi , Mohamed Rahouti , Ruhul Amin , Sarah ALJamal , Kaiqi Xiong , Yufeng Xin

A novel class of extreme link-flooding DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks is designed to cut off entire geographical areas such as cities and even countries from the Internet by simultaneously targeting a selected set of network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Mostafa Rezazad , Matthias R. Brust , Mohammad Akbari , Pascal Bouvry , Ngai-Man Cheung

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

Denial of Service (DOS) attack is one of the most attack that attract the cyber criminals which aims to reduce the network performance from doing its intended functions. Moreover, DOS Attacks can cause a huge damage on the data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Yousef Khaled Shaheen , Mohammad Al Kasassbeh

As 5G continues to expand its coverage and use. Innovative ideas/technologies continue to be implemented within. New vulnerabilities appear, thus resulting in new methods of mitigation and detection to occur. With the architecture that 5G…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Adem Rosic

Pushback is a mechanism for defending against Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS attacks are treated as a congestion-control problem, but because most such congestion is caused by malicious hosts not obeying traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-01-11 Saravanan Kumarasamy , R. Asokan

Machine-learning-based anomaly detection (ML-based AD) has been successful at detecting DDoS events in the lab. However published evaluations of ML-based AD have used only limited data and provided minimal insight into why it works. To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Hang Guo , Xun Fan , Anh Cao , Geoff Outhred , John Heidemann

The network security analyzers use intrusion detection systems (IDSes) to distinguish malicious traffic from benign ones. The deep learning-based IDSes are proposed to auto-extract high-level features and eliminate the time-consuming and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Mahdi Soltani , Khashayar Khajavi , Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Amir Hossein Jahangir

Machine Learning (ML) techniques have begun to dominate data analytics applications and services. Recommendation systems are a key component of online service providers. The financial industry has adopted ML to harness large volumes of data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Richard Mortier , Hamed Haddadi , Sandra Servia , Liang Wang

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies continue to gain traction in the modern-day world, they ultimately pose an immediate threat to current cybersecurity systems via exploitative methods. Prompt engineering is a relatively new field…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Haiyan Xuan , Mohith Manohar