[HTML][HTML] Darknet traffic classification and adversarial attacks using machine learning

N Rust-Nguyen, S Sharma, M Stamp - Computers & Security, 2023 - Elsevier
The anonymous nature of darknets is commonly exploited for illegal activities. Previous
research has employed machine learning and deep learning techniques to automate the …

Robust stacking ensemble model for darknet traffic classification under adversarial settings

H Mohanty, AH Roudsari, AH Lashkari - Computers & Security, 2022 - Elsevier
Encrypted traffic tunnelled by Tor or VPN is referred to as darknet traffic. The ability to detect,
identify, and characterize darknet traffic is critical for detecting network traffic generated by a …

DarknetSec: A novel self-attentive deep learning method for darknet traffic classification and application identification

J Lan, X Liu, B Li, Y Li, T Geng - Computers & Security, 2022 - Elsevier
Darknet traffic classification is crucial for identifying anonymous network applications and
defensing cyber crimes. Although notable research efforts have been dedicated to …

Darkdetect: Darknet traffic detection and categorization using modified convolution-long short-term memory

MB Sarwar, MK Hanif, R Talib, M Younas… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Darknet is commonly known as the epicenter of illegal online activities. An analysis of
darknet traffic is essential to monitor real-time applications and activities running over the …

Didarknet: A contemporary approach to detect and characterize the darknet traffic using deep image learning

A Habibi Lashkari, G Kaur, A Rahali - Proceedings of the 2020 10th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Darknet traffic classification is significantly important to categorize real-time applications.
Although there are notable efforts to classify darknet traffic which rely heavily on existing …

Black-box adversarial machine learning attack on network traffic classification

M Usama, A Qayyum, J Qadir… - 2019 15th International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep machine learning techniques have shown promising results in network traffic
classification, however, the robustness of these techniques under adversarial threats is still …

Deep in the dark-deep learning-based malware traffic detection without expert knowledge

G Marín, P Casas… - 2019 IEEE Security and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the ever-growing occurrence of networking attacks, robust network security systems are
essential to prevent and mitigate their harming effects. In recent years, machine learning …

Evading machine learning botnet detection models via deep reinforcement learning

D Wu, B Fang, J Wang, Q Liu… - ICC 2019-2019 IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Botnets are one of predominant threats to Internet security. To date, machine learning
technology has wide application in botnet detection because that it is able to summarize the …

Tiki-taka: Attacking and defending deep learning-based intrusion detection systems

C Zhang, X Costa-Pérez, P Patras - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Neural networks are increasingly important in the development of Network Intrusion
Detection Systems (NIDS), as they have the potential to achieve high detection accuracy …

Flow-based detection and proxy-based evasion of encrypted malware C2 traffic

C Novo, R Morla - Proceedings of the 13th ACM Workshop on Artificial …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
State of the art deep learning techniques are known to be vulnerable to evasion attacks
where an adversarial sample is generated from a malign sample and misclassified as …