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As the internet continues to be populated with new devices and emerging technologies, the attack surface grows exponentially. Technology is shifting towards a profit-driven Internet of Things market where security is an afterthought.…

The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its integration with backbone networks have heightened the risk of security breaches. Traditional centralized approaches to anomaly detection, which require transferring large volumes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Devashish Chaudhary , Sutharshan Rajasegarar , Shiva Raj Pokhrel , Lei Pan , Ruby D

The rapid expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has increased the risk of cyber-attacks, making effective detection essential for securing IoT networks. This work introduces a novel approach combining Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Ahmed Bensaoud , Jugal Kalita

The rapid expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has transformed industries and daily life by enabling widespread connectivity and data exchange. However, this increased interconnection has introduced serious security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hikmat A. M. Abdeljaber , Md. Alamgir Hossain , Sultan Ahmad , Ahmed Alsanad , Md Alimul Haque , Sudan Jha , Jabeen Nazeer

A botnet is an army of zombified computers infected with malware and controlled by malicious actors to carry out tasks such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices are primarily targeted…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Angela Grace Famera , Raj Mani Shukla , Suman Bhunia

With the rapidly spreading usage of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, a network intrusion detection system (NIDS) plays an important role in detecting and protecting various types of attacks in the IoT network. To evaluate the robustness of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Jesse Atuhurra , Takanori Hara , Yuanyu Zhang , Masahiro Sasabe , Shoji Kasahara

The rapid expansion of the industrial Internet of things (IIoT) has introduced new challenges in securing critical infrastructures against sophisticated cyberthreats. This study presents the development and evaluation of an advanced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Afrah Gueriani , Hamza Kheddar , Ahmed Cherif Mazari

The ever-increasing security vulnerabilities in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems require improved threat detection approaches. This paper presents a compact and efficient approach to detect botnet attacks by employing an integrated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Amna Naeem , Jawad Ahmad , Muazzam A. Khan , Aizaz Ahmad Khattak , Muhammad Shahbaz Khan

With the rapid expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) networks, detecting malicious traffic in real-time has become a critical cybersecurity challenge. This research addresses the detection challenges by presenting a comprehensive empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Jiaqi Chen , Rongbin Ye

The Internet of Things (IoT) is expanding at an accelerated pace, making it critical to have secure networks to mitigate a variety of cyber threats. This study addresses the limitation of multi-class attack detection of IoT devices and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Shahran Rahman Alve , Muhammad Zawad Mahmud , Samiha Islam , Md. Asaduzzaman Chowdhury , Jahirul Islam

Given the increased growing of Internet of Things networks and their presence in critical aspects of human activities, the security of devices connected to these networks becomes critical. Machine Learning approaches are becoming prominent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Jhon Alexánder Parra , Sergio Armando Gutiérrez , John Willian Branch

An increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices are connecting to the Internet, yet many of these devices are fundamentally insecure, exposing the Internet to a variety of attacks. Botnets such as Mirai have used insecure consumer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Rohan Doshi , Noah Apthorpe , Nick Feamster

The security pitfalls of IoT devices make it easy for the attackers to exploit the IoT devices and make them a part of a botnet. Once hundreds of thousands of IoT devices are compromised and become the part of a botnet, the attackers use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Faisal Hussain , Syed Ghazanfar Abbas , Ubaid U. Fayyaz , Ghalib A. Shah , Abdullah Toqeer , Ahmad Ali

Due to the exponential rise in IoT-based botnet attacks, researchers have explored various advanced techniques for both dimensionality reduction and attack detection to enhance IoT security. Among these, Variational Autoencoders (VAE),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Hassan Wasswa , Hussein Abbass , Timothy Lynar

The Internet as we know it Today, comprises several fundamental interrelated networks, among which is the Internet of Things (IoT). Despite their versatility, several IoT devices are vulnerable from a security perspective, which renders…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Zainab Al-Othman , Mouhammd Alkasassbeh , Sherenaz AL-Haj Baddar

In the rapidly evolving landscape of cyber threats targeting the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, and in light of the surge in botnet-driven Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and brute force attacks, this study focuses on the early…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Abdelaziz Amara korba , Aleddine Diaf , Yacine Ghamri-Doudane

Botnets are increasingly used by malicious actors, creating increasing threat to a large number of internet users. To address this growing danger, we propose to study methods to detect botnets, especially those that are hard to capture with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Jeeyung Kim , Alex Sim , Jinoh Kim , Kesheng Wu

This paper presents the detection of DDoS attacks in IoT networks using machine learning models. Their rapid growth has made them highly susceptible to various forms of cyberattacks, many of whose security procedures are implemented in an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Sushil Shakya , Robert Abbas

In recent years, there has been a massive increase in the amount of Internet of Things (IoT) devices as well as the data generated by such devices. The participating devices in IoT networks can be problematic due to their…

The Internet of Things (IoT) integrates more than billions of intelligent devices over the globe with the capability of communicating with other connected devices with little to no human intervention. IoT enables data aggregation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Tin Lai , Farnaz Farid , Abubakar Bello , Fariza Sabrina