A comprehensive review of vulnerabilities and AI-enabled defense against DDoS attacks for securing cloud services

S Kumar, M Dwivedi, M Kumar, SS Gill - Computer Science Review, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The advent of cloud computing has made a global impact by providing on-demand services,
elasticity, scalability, and flexibility, hence delivering cost-effective resources to end users in …

DDoS attacks at the application layer: Challenges and research perspectives for safeguarding web applications

A Praseed, PS Thilagam - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are some of the most devastating attacks
against Web applications. A large number of these attacks aim to exhaust the network …

Application layer denial-of-service attacks and defense mechanisms: A survey

N Tripathi, N Hubballi - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2021‏ - dl.acm.org
Application layer Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks are generated by exploiting vulnerabilities
of the protocol implementation or its design. Unlike volumetric DoS attacks, these are …

Detection and mitigation of low-rate denial-of-service attacks: A survey

VDM Rios, PRM Inácio, D Magoni, MM Freire - IEEE Access, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The potential for being the target of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks is one of the most severe
security threats on the Internet. Attackers have been modifying their attack format over the …

[HTML][HTML] SlowITe, a novel denial of service attack affecting MQTT

I Vaccari, M Aiello, E Cambiaso - Sensors, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Security of the Internet of Things is a crucial topic, due to the criticality of the networks and
the sensitivity of exchanged data. In this paper, we target the Message Queue Telemetry …

Distributed real-time SlowDoS attacks detection over encrypted traffic using Artificial Intelligence

N Garcia, T Alcaniz, A González-Vidal… - Journal of Network and …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
SlowDoS attacks exploit slow transmissions on application-level protocols like HTTP to carry
out denial of service against web-servers. These attacks are difficult to be detected with …

Slow rate denial of service attacks against HTTP/2 and detection

N Tripathi, N Hubballi - Computers & security, 2018‏ - Elsevier
HTTP/2 is a newly standardized protocol designed to efficiently utilize the TCP's
transmission rate and has other advantages compared to HTTP/1.1. However its threat …

How secure are web servers? An empirical study of slow HTTP DoS attacks and detection

N Tripathi, N Hubballi, Y Singh - 2016 11th International …, 2016‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Slow HTTP Denial of Service (DoS) is an application layer DoS attack in which large number
of incomplete HTTP requests are sent. If number of such open connections in the server …

Detection of Slowloris attacks using machine learning algorithms

V Rios, P Inacio, D Magoni, M Freire - Proceedings of the 39th ACM …, 2024‏ - dl.acm.org
The Slowloris attack, a variant of the slow Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack, is a stealthy threat
that aims to take down web services provided by companies and institutions. It is able to …

[HTML][HTML] Slowtt: A slow denial of service against iot networks

I Vaccari, M Aiello, E Cambiaso - Information, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
The security of Internet of Things environments is a critical and trending topic, due to the
nature of the networks and the sensitivity of the exchanged information. In this paper, we …