S. Vanitha^1,*, P. Balasubramanie²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.1, pp. 849-864, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.032324

Abstract Internet of things (IOT) possess cultural, commercial and social effect in life in the future. The nodes which are participating in IOT network are basically attracted by the cyber-attack targets. Attack and identification of anomalies in IoT infrastructure is a growing problem in the IoT domain. Machine Learning Based Ensemble Intrusion Detection (MLEID) method is applied in order to resolve the drawback by minimizing malicious actions in related botnet attacks on Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) and Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) protocols. The proposed work has two significant contributions which are a selection of features and detection of attacks. New… More >

Khlood Shinan^1,2, Khalid Alsubhi², M. Usman Ashraf^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 693-714, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.031641

Abstract The number of botnet malware attacks on Internet devices has grown at an equivalent rate to the number of Internet devices that are connected to the Internet. Bot detection using machine learning (ML) with flow-based features has been extensively studied in the literature. Existing flow-based detection methods involve significant computational overhead that does not completely capture network communication patterns that might reveal other features of malicious hosts. Recently, Graph-Based Bot Detection methods using ML have gained attention to overcome these limitations, as graphs provide a real representation of network communications. The purpose of this study is to build a botnet… More >

Peng Hui Li¹, Jie Xu^1,*, Zhong Yi Xu¹, Su Chen¹, Bo Wei Niu², Jie Yin¹, Xiao Feng Sun¹, Hao Liang Lan¹, Lu Lu Chen³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 3847-3860, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.029969

Abstract At present, the severe network security situation has put forward high requirements for network security defense technology. In order to automate botnet threat warning, this paper researches the types and characteristics of Botnet. Botnet has special characteristics in attributes such as packets, attack time interval, and packet size. In this paper, the attack data is annotated by means of string recognition and expert screening. The attack features are extracted from the labeled attack data, and then use K-means for cluster analysis. The clustering results show that the same attack data has its unique characteristics, and the automatic identification of network… More >

Tariq Ahamed Ahanger^1,*, Abdulaziz Aldaej¹, Mohammed Atiquzzaman², Imdad Ullah¹, Mohammed Yousuf Uddin¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 3199-3217, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.027212

Abstract DDoS attacks in the Internet of Things (IoT) technology have increased significantly due to its spread adoption in different industrial domains. The purpose of the current research is to propose a novel technique for detecting botnet attacks in user-oriented IoT environments. Conspicuously, an attack identification technique inspired by Recurrent Neural networks and Bidirectional Long Short Term Memory (BLRNN) is presented using a unique Deep Learning (DL) technique. For text identification and translation of attack data segments into tokenized form, word embedding is employed. The performance analysis of the presented technique is performed in comparison to the state-of-the-art DL techniques. Specifically,… More >

Attia Qammar¹, Ahmad Karim^1,*, Yasser Alharbi², Mohammad Alsaffar², Abdullah Alharbi²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.43, No.3, pp. 915-930, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.023652

Abstract Smartphone devices particularly Android devices are in use by billions of people everywhere in the world. Similarly, this increasing rate attracts mobile botnet attacks which is a network of interconnected nodes operated through the command and control (C&C) method to expand malicious activities. At present, mobile botnet attacks launched the Distributed denial of services (DDoS) that causes to steal of sensitive data, remote access, and spam generation, etc. Consequently, various approaches are defined in the literature to detect mobile botnet attacks using static or dynamic analysis. In this paper, a novel hybrid model, the combination of static and dynamic methods… More >

Ye-Eun Kim¹, Min-Gyu Kim², Hwankuk Kim^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 4467-4488, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.026581

Abstract As Internet of Things (IoT) devices with security issues are connected to 5G mobile networks, the importance of IoT Botnet detection research in mobile network environments is increasing. However, the existing research focused on AI-based IoT Botnet detection research in wired network environments. In addition, the existing research related to IoT Botnet detection in ML-based mobile network environments have been conducted up to 4G. Therefore, this paper conducts a study on ML-based IoT Botnet traffic detection in the 5G core network. The binary and multiclass classification was performed to compare simple normal/malicious detection and normal/three-type IoT Botnet malware detection. In… More >

B. Padmavathi^1,2,*, B. Muthukumar³

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.43, No.1, pp. 119-139, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.021431

Abstract Capturing the distributed platform with remotely controlled compromised machines using botnet is extensively analyzed by various researchers. However, certain limitations need to be addressed efficiently. The provisioning of detection mechanism with learning approaches provides a better solution more broadly by saluting multi-objective constraints. The bots’ patterns or features over the network have to be analyzed in both linear and non-linear manner. The linear and non-linear features are composed of high-level and low-level features. The collected features are maintained over the Bag of Features (BoF) where the most influencing features are collected and provided into the classifier model. Here, the linearity… More >

Mohd Anul Haq, Mohd Abdul Rahim Khan^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.1, pp. 1729-1750, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020938

Abstract The evolution and expansion of IoT devices reduced human efforts, increased resource utilization, and saved time; however, IoT devices create significant challenges such as lack of security and privacy, making them more vulnerable to IoT-based botnet attacks. There is a need to develop efficient and faster models which can work in real-time with efficiency and stability. The present investigation developed two novels, Deep Neural Network (DNN) models, DNNBoT1 and DNNBoT2, to detect and classify well-known IoT botnet attacks such as Mirai and BASHLITE from nine compromised industrial-grade IoT devices. The utilization of PCA was made to feature extraction and improve… More >