Abstract Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is one of the biggest cyber threats.
DDoS attacks have evolved in quantity and volume to evade detection and increase …

Botnets, which are networks formed by malware-compromised machines, have become a
serious threat to the Internet. Such networks have been created to conduct large-scale …

Botnets represent one of the most serious cybersecurity threats faced by organizations
today. Botnets have been used as the main vector in carrying many cyber crimes reported in …

Among the various forms of malware, botnets are emerging as the most serious threat
against cyber-security as they provide a distributed platform for several illegal activities such …

Malicious botnets have become a common threat and pervade large parts of the Internet
today. Existing surveys and taxonomies focus on botnet topologies, command and control …

A number of detection and defense mechanisms have emerged in the last decade to tackle
the botnet phenomenon. It is important to organize this knowledge to better understand the …

The proliferation of Internet of Things devices has resulted in an increase in security
vulnerabilities and network attacks. The Mirai botnet is a well-known example of a network …

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a critical threat to the Internet, and botnets are
usually the engines behind them. Sophisticated botmasters attempt to disable detectors by …

Global Internet threats have undergone a profound transformation from attacks designed
solely to disable infrastructure to those that also target people and organizations. At the …

Thanks to modern deep learning frameworks that exploit GPUs, convolutional neural
networks (CNNs) have been greatly successful in visual recognition tasks. In this paper, we …