DDoS attacks are one of the biggest threats to the modern Internet as their magnitude is
constantly increasing. They are highly effective because of the amplification and reflection …

Open DNS resolvers are widely misused to bring about reflection and amplification DDoS
attacks. Indiscriminate efforts to address the issue and take down all resolvers have not fully …

While DNS is often exploited by reflective DoS attacks, it can also be weaponized as a
powerful amplifier to overload itself, as evidenced by a stream of recently discovered …

Authoritative DNS infrastructures are at the core of the Internet ecosystem. But how resilient
are typical authoritative DNS name servers against application-layer Denial-of-Service …

Open DNS resolvers are infamous contributors to DDoS attacks. Characteristics of open
DNS resolvers have been studied in different aspects in the past. However, there is a gap in …

In the past decades, DNS has gradually risen into one of the most important systems on the
Internet. Malicious actors have long misused it in reflection and amplification DDoS attacks …

Motivated by the impressive but diffuse scope of DDoS research and reporting, we
undertake a multistakeholder (joint industry-academic) analysis to seek convergence across …

Connectionless networking protocols such as DNS continue to be widely misused for
Reflection & Amplification (R&A) DDoS attacks. Early efforts to address the main cause of …

This study aims to enhance data retention strategies in the context of DDoS attacks by
designing, implementing, and evaluating a novel scalable system. The system is developed …

Keeping users' and organizations' data secure is a challenging task. The situation is made
more complicated due to the ever-increasing complex dependencies among IT systems. In …