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In this paper, we uncover the essential features of websites that allow intelligent models to distinguish between phishing and legitimate sites. Phishing websites are those that are made with a similar user interface and a near similar…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Arash Negahdari Kia , Finbarr Murphy , Zahra Dehghani Mohammadabadi , Parisa Shamsi

Website fingerprinting attack is an extensively studied technique used in a web browser to analyze traffic patterns and thus infer confidential information about users. Several website fingerprinting attacks based on machine learning and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Guodong Huang , Chuan Ma , Ming Ding , Yuwen Qian , Chunpeng Ge , Liming Fang , Zhe Liu

Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have emerged as a popular means of causing collection particular overhaul disruptions, often for total periods of instance. The relative ease and low costs of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-02-22 Saravanan Kumarasamy , Dr. R. Asokan

In this paper, we present a general scheme for building reproducible and extensible datasets for website phishing detection. The aim is to (1) enable comparison of systems using different features, (2) overtake the short-lived nature of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Abdelhakim Hannousse , Salima Yahiouche

Increasing interest in the adoption of cloud computing has exposed it to cyber-attacks. One of such is distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that targets cloud bandwidth, services and resources to make it unavailable to both the cloud…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Opeyemi Osanaiye , Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo2 , Ali Dehghantanha , Zheng Xu , Mqhele Dlodlo

Achieving situational awareness is a challenging process in current HTTPS-dominant web traffic. In this paper, we propose a new approach to encrypted web traffic monitoring. First, we design a method for correlating host-based and network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Stanislav Špaček , Petr Velan , Pavel Čeleda , Daniel Tovarňák

Machine Learning (ML) techniques are becoming an invaluable support for network intrusion detection, especially in revealing anomalous flows, which often hide cyber-threats. Typically, ML algorithms are exploited to classify/recognize data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Mario Di Mauro , Giovanni Galatro , Giancarlo Fortino , Antonio Liotta

Phishing continues to be one of the most prevalent attack vectors, making accurate classification of phishing URLs essential. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising results in phishing URL detection. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Holly Trikilis , Pasindu Marasinghe , Fariza Rashid , Suranga Seneviratne

Flow correlation attacks is an efficient network attacks, aiming to expose those who use anonymous network services, such as Tor. Conducting such attacks during the early stages of network communication is particularly critical for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Yali Yuan , Qianqi Niu , Yachao Yuan

In this paper, we analyze existing feature selection methods to identify the key elements of network traffic data that allow intrusion detection. In addition, we propose a new feature selection method that addresses the challenge of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Firuz Kamalov , Sherif Moussa , Rita Zgheib , Omar Mashaal

Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack is one of the most common network attacks. DDoS attacks are becoming more and more diverse, which makes it difficult for some DDoS attack detection methods based on single network flow…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Li Yijie , Zhai Shang , Chen Mingrui

Network intrusion detection systems are themselves becoming targets of attackers. Alert flood attacks may be used to conceal malicious activity by hiding it among a deluge of false alerts sent by the attacker. Although these types of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Gianni Tedesco , Uwe Aickelin

Distributed denial of service(DDos) attack is ongoing dangerous threat to the Internet. Commonly, DDos attacks are carried out at the network layer, e.g. SYN flooding, ICMP flooding and UDP flooding, which are called Distributed denial of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Prajwal R Thakare , K. Hanumantha Rao

TLS stripping attacks expose sensitive web traffic by forcing secure HTTPS connections to fall back to unencrypted HTTP. At present, protection against these attacks relies on website operators explicitly opting into security by deploying…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Aaron van Diepen , Adrian Zapletal , Fernando Kuipers

Websites, as essential digital assets, are highly vulnerable to cyberattacks because of their high traffic volume and the significant impact of breaches. This study aims to enhance the identification of web traffic attacks by leveraging…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Daniel Urda , Branly Martínez , Nuño Basurto , Meelis Kull , Ángel Arroyo , Álvaro Herrero

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

HTTPS is quickly rising alongside the need of Internet users to benefit from security and privacy when accessing the Web, and it becomes the predominant application protocol on the Internet. This migration towards a secure Web using HTTPS…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Wazen M. Shbair , Thibault Cholez , Jerome Francois , Isabelle Chrisment

This paper deals with the query problem in the Internet of Things (IoT). Flooding is an important query strategy. However, original flooding is prone to cause heavy network loads. To address this problem, we propose a variant of flooding,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-12-25 Tie Qiu , Yanhong Ding , Feng Xia , Honglian Ma

QUIC protocol is primarily designed to optimize web performance and security. However, previous research has pointed out that it is vulnerable to handshake flooding attacks. Attackers can send excessive volume of handshaking requests to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Abdollah Jabbari , Y A Joarder , Benjamin Teyssier , Carol Fung

Webshell attacks are becoming more common, requiring robust detection mechanisms to protect web applications. The dissertation clearly states two research directions: scanning web application source code and analyzing HTTP traffic to detect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Ha L. Viet , On V. Phung , Hoa N. Nguyen