arXiv AI

Detecting and Mitigating DDoS Attacks with AI: A Survey

arXiv:2503. 17867v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Distributed Denial of Service attacks represent an active cybersecurity research problem.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

A GAN-Based Framework for Robust DDoS Attack Detection

The paper introduces a GAN‑based framework for detecting DDoS attacks that are designed to evade traditional security systems. It combines Random Forests, Deep Neural Ensembles, and Transformer models trained on the CICDDoS2019 dataset with synthetic adversarial traffic generated by a WGAN‑GP. Experiments show that this hybrid training significantly improves detection accuracy and resilience against unseen adversarial traffic, and real‑world tests confirm its practical effectiveness.

By Makram Chehayeb, Walid Fahs, Amina Rizk, Rida Khatoun, Omran Berjawi
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

Hybrid CNN-LSTM Framework for Intelligent Cyber Attack Detection and Prevention in U.S. Critical Digital Infrastructure: A Comparative Machine Learning Evaluation on CSE-CIC-IDS2018

arXiv:2606. 05714v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Digital infrastructure is growing at a rapid pace in the United States, and as a result, exposure to advanced cyber threats to critical sectors including healthcare, finance, transportation, energy and government systems is growing.

By Md. Iqbal Hossan, Md. Serajul Kabir Chowdhury Rubel, Md. Arifur Rahman, B. M. Taslimul Haque
arXiv AI
Aug 19

Cognitive Graph Intelligence for Adaptive and Robust DDoS Attack Detection in Next Generation Networks

The paper introduces GraphGAN, a Graph-based Generative Adversarial Network designed to detect Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks in next-generation networks. It transforms sequential traffic flows into k‑nearest neighbor graphs, uses a generator to create realistic minority samples, and employs Graph Convolutional Networks for both discrimination and final classification. Experiments on four benchmark datasets demonstrate that GraphGAN outperforms existing methods in accuracy, precision, and recall, especially when data are scarce.

By Mohammad Arif Hossain, Yeahia Sarker, Md Jafrin Hossain, Most. Humayra Khanom Rime, Nirwan Ansari
arXiv AI
Jul 3

Generative AI and Federated Learning for Intrusion Detection Systems: A Survey

arXiv:2607. 01305v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) are essential for monitoring network traffic and identifying malicious activities in modern cyber-physical, Internet of Things (IoT), enterprise, and distributed network environments.

By Jiefei Liu, Abu Saleh Md Tayeen, Pratyay Kumar, Qixu Gong, Wenbin Jiang, Huiping Cao, Satyajayant Misra, Jayashree Harikumar
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 19

Diff-DDoS: Realistic Cyber-Physical Attack Synthesis and Robust Detection for 5G-Enabled CPS Using Tabular Diffusion Models

Diff‑DDoS is a three‑phase framework that uses tabular diffusion models to generate realistic cyber‑physical attacks and strengthen DDoS detectors for 5G‑enabled systems. First, a CNN cell‑level detector is trained on call detail record (CDR) grids; second, a tabular denoising diffusion probabilistic model (TabDDPM) learns normal CDR aggregates to synthesize realistic attacks; third, adversarial diffusion training (ADT) iteratively produces hard, distribution‑preserving samples that harden the detector. On the Milano CDR dataset, ResNet50 with ADT achieves near‑perfect F1‑scores across multiple attack scenarios, outperforming existing synthetic‑data methods such as CTGAN.

By Bilal Hussain, Xiao Tang, Qinghe Du, Tan Li, Muhammad Azhar, Danista Khan