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 …

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 …

Detection of Application Layer DDoS attack by feature learning using Stacked AutoEncoder

S Yadav, S Subramanian - 2016 international conference on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An Application Layer Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS) is one of the biggest
concerns for web security. Many detection methods are designed to mitigate DDoS attack …

Increasing web service availability by detecting application-layer DDoS attacks in encrypted traffic

M Zolotukhin, T Hämäläinen… - 2016 23rd …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, zero-day Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks become frighteningly common in high-
speed networks due to constantly increasing number of vulnerabilities. Moreover, these …

Modelling behavioural dynamics for asymmetric application layer DDoS detection

A Praseed, PS Thilagam - IEEE Transactions on Information …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Asymmetric application layer DDoS attacks using computationally intensive HTTP requests
are an extremely dangerous class of attacks capable of taking down web servers with …

An approach to application-layer DoS detection

C Kemp, C Calvert, TM Khoshgoftaar, JL Leevy - Journal of Big Data, 2023 - Springer
With the massive resources and strategies accessible to attackers, countering Denial of
Service (DoS) attacks is getting increasingly difficult. One of these techniques is application …

User behavior analytics-based classification of application layer HTTP-GET flood attacks

K Singh, P Singh, K Kumar - Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2018 - Elsevier
Web services are one of the most prominent forms of web presence exercised by the
businesses to connect to their possible client base. GET flood attacks, commonly known as …

Detection of application layer DDoS attack by modeling user behavior using logistic regression

S Yadav, S Selvakumar - 2015 4th International Conference on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
DDoS attack has been a threat to network security since a decade and it will continue to be
so in the near future also. Now a days application layer DDoS attack poses a major …

Application-layer DDoS defense with reinforcement learning

Y Feng, J Li, T Nguyen - 2020 IEEE/ACM 28th International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Application-layer distributed denial-of-service (L7 DDoS) attacks, by exploiting application-
layer requests to overwhelm functions or components of victim servers, have become a …