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:2509.20411v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Machine learning-based cybersecurity systems are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks, while Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) act a...
By Tharcisse Ndayipfukamiye, Jianguo Ding, Doreen Sebastian Sarwatt, Adamu Gaston Philipo, Huansheng Ning
arXiv:2607. 17105v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: It is crucial to safeguard computer networks from evolving network security threats and unknown cyberattacks.
By Khushnaseeb Roshan
arXiv:2606. 12075v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) heavily utlize Machine Learning (ML) but ML models can be manipulated via adversarial attacks.
By Mayank Raj, Nathaniel D. Bastian, Lance Fiondella, Gokhan Kul
arXiv:2609.36167v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Distributed Denial of Service attacks are a growing threat to network infrastructure, and new techniques, including the use of generative AI, make th...
By Aadith Sukumar, Isha Singh, Devershika Mohane, Ankit Mukherjee, Ankush Dutta, Rahee Walambe, Ketan Kotecha
arXiv:2607. 04145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adversarial attacks guide and provide additional training and test data for both adversarial training and adversarial robustness validation, and expose the 'piecewise linearity' of deep learning based models.
By Naman Goyal, Milan Chaudhari
arXiv:2603. 17717v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Supervised detection of network attacks has always been a critical part of network intrusion detection systems (NIDS).
By Iakovos-Christos Zarkadis, Christos Douligeris
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:2606. 28439v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely applied in Network-based Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) due to their high accuracy.
By Jinhao You, Zan Zhou, Shujie Yang, Yi Sun, Lei Zhang, Changqiao Xu
arXiv:2606. 07716v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adversarial attacks pose a serious and growing threat to Machine Learning (ML)-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), where imperceptible perturbations to network flow features can systematically mislead classifiers into accepting malicious traffic as benign.
By Maryam Zaman, Muhammad Khuram Shahzad
The study compares XGBoost and RoBERTa‑LoRA for network intrusion detection across three evaluation axes: same‑dataset performance, cross‑dataset transfer, and adversarial evasion. Both models perform similarly on the same dataset, but XGBoost outperforms RoBERTa‑LoRA by 15 F1 points and 25 balanced accuracy points when transferred to a different network, while RoBERTa‑LoRA wins by about 17 F1 points under adversarial evasion. Feature‑leakage ablation shows that cross‑dataset transfer improvements are non‑monotonic and directional, suggesting leakage is spread across features rather than isolated.
"whyItMatters":"The findings demonstrate that a model’s superiority depends on the specific robustness axis evaluated, underscoring the need for multi‑axis, multi‑metric testing in network intrusion detection research."
By Muhammad Ebad Atif, Muhammad Haider Ali
arXiv:2609.36039v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) have dominated Intrusion Detection System (IDS) research in recent years. Unfortunately, many existing s...
By Yufeng Xin, Bryant Goseland, Mohamed Rahouti