[HTML][HTML] Detection of attack-targeted scans from the Apache HTTP Server access logs

MB Seyyar, FÖ Çatak, E Gül - Applied computing and informatics, 2018 - Elsevier
A web application could be visited for different purposes. It is possible for a web site to be
visited by a regular user as a normal (natural) visit, to be viewed by crawlers, bots, spiders …

A detailed survey of denial of service for IoT and multimedia systems: Past, present and futuristic development

A Verma, R Saha, N Kumar, G Kumar - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2022 - Springer
The rise in frequency and volume of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks has made
it a destructive weapon of attackers which can disrupt the services of any network including …

Detection of malicious and non-malicious website visitors using unsupervised neural network learning

D Stevanovic, N Vlajic, A An - Applied Soft Computing, 2013 - Elsevier
Distributed denials of service (DDoS) attacks are recognized as one of the most damaging
attacks on the Internet security today. Recently, malicious web crawlers have been used to …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient on-the-fly Web bot detection

G Suchacka, A Cabri, S Rovetta, F Masulli - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
A large fraction of traffic on present-day Web servers is generated by bots—intelligent
agents able to traverse the Web and execute various advanced tasks. Since bots' activity …

Fp-crawlers: studying the resilience of browser fingerprinting to block crawlers

A Vastel, W Rudametkin, R Rouvoy… - MADWeb'20-NDSS …, 2020 - inria.hal.science
Data available on the Web, such as financial data or public reviews, provides a competitive
advantage to companies able to exploit them. Web crawlers, a category of bot, aim at …

[HTML][HTML] Bot recognition in a Web store: An approach based on unsupervised learning

S Rovetta, G Suchacka, F Masulli - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2020 - Elsevier
Web traffic on e-business sites is increasingly dominated by artificial agents (Web bots)
which pose a threat to the website security, privacy, and performance. To develop efficient …

Poisoning self-supervised learning based sequential recommendations

Y Wang, Y Liu, Q Wang, C Wang, C Li - Proceedings of the 46th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Self-supervised learning (SSL) has been recently applied to sequential recommender
systems to provide high-quality user representations. However, while facilitating the learning …

Exploratory Analysis on Current Application-Layer HTTP-Payload-Based DDoS Attack on Internet of Things (IoT) Devices

A Sharma, A Khang - Smart Cities, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
The Internet of Things (IoT) Security has newly become a major concern and important
research topic because it directly interacts with human users. Application-layer Distributed …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying legitimate Web users and bots with different traffic profiles—an Information Bottleneck approach

G Suchacka, J Iwański - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent studies reported that about half of Web users nowadays are intelligent agents (Web
bots). Many bots are impersonators operating at a very high sophistication level, trying to …

Detection of advanced web bots by combining web logs with mouse behavioural biometrics

C Iliou, T Kostoulas, T Tsikrika, V Katos… - Digital threats: research …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Web bots vary in sophistication based on their purpose, ranging from simple automated
scripts to advanced web bots that have a browser fingerprint, support the main browser …