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On context-aware DDoS attacks using deep generative networks

dc.contributor.authorGürsun, Gonca
dc.contributor.authorŞensoy, Murat
dc.contributor.authorKandemir, Melih
dc.contributor.departmentComputer Science
dc.contributor.ozuauthorGÜRSUN, Gonca
dc.contributor.ozuauthorŞENSOY, Murat
dc.contributor.ozuauthorKANDEMİR, Malih
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-16T08:51:52Z
dc.date.available2020-04-16T08:51:52Z
dc.date.issued2018-10
dc.description.abstractDistributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks continue to be one of the most severe threats in the Internet. The intrinsic challenge in preventing DDoS attacks is to distinguish them from legitimate flash crowds since two have many traffic characteristics in common. Today most DDoS detection techniques focus on finding parametric differences between the patterns in attack and legitimate traffic. However, such techniques are very sensitive to the threshold values set on the parameters and more importantly legitimate traffic features might be mimicked by smart attackers to generate requests that look like flash crowds. In this paper, we propose a framework for training networks for such smart attacks. Our framework is based on Deep Generative Network models and our contributions are two-fold.We first show that legitimate traffic features can be mimicked without explicitly modeling their distributions. Second, we introduce the concept of context-aware DDoS attacks. We show that an attacker can generate traffic that looks similar to flash crowds to be undetected for long periods of time. However, the ability of generating such attacks is constrained by the budget of the attacker. A context-aware attacker is the one that can intelligently use its budget to maximize the damage in the victim network. Our study provides a framework for training networks for such DDoS attack scenarios.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1109/ICCCN.2018.8487336en_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-153865156-8
dc.identifier.issn1095-2055
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85060455749
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10679/6514
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1109/ICCCN.2018.8487336
dc.identifier.wos000450116600019
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publicationstatusPublisheden_US
dc.publisherIEEEen_US
dc.relation.ispartof2018 27th International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN)
dc.relation.publicationcategoryInternational
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.titleOn context-aware DDoS attacks using deep generative networksen_US
dc.typeConference paperen_US
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