Arpita Dinesh Sarang¹, Mohsen Ali Alawami², Ki-Woong Park^3,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.141, No.1, pp. 655-669, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.053434 - 20 August 2024

Abstract Nowadays, the use of Avatars that are unique digital depictions has increased by users to access Metaverse—a virtual reality environment—through multiple devices and for various purposes. Therefore, the Avatar and Metaverse are being developed with a new theory, application, and design, necessitating the association of more personal data and devices of targeted users every day. This Avatar and Metaverse technology explosion raises privacy and security concerns, leading to cyber attacks. MV-Honeypot, or Metaverse-Honeypot, as a commercial off-the-shelf solution that can counter these cyber attack-causing vulnerabilities, should be developed. To fill this gap, we study user’s More > Graphic Abstract

Shangting Miao¹, Yang Li^2,*, Quan Pan²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.3, pp. 2745-2762, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.037257 - 08 October 2023

Abstract A space called Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) cyber is a new environment where UAV, Ground Control Station (GCS) and business processes are integrated. Denial of service (DoS) attack is a standard network attack method, especially suitable for attacking the UAV cyber. It is a robust security risk for UAV cyber and has recently become an active research area. Game theory is typically used to simulate the existing offensive and defensive mechanisms for DoS attacks in a traditional network. In addition, the honeypot, an effective security vulnerability defense mechanism, has not been widely adopted or modeled… More >

Arkan Hammoodi Hasan Kabla, Mohammed Anbar, Selvakumar Manickam, Alwan Ahmed Abdulrahman Alwan, Shankar Karuppayah^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.2, pp. 3375-3398, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.036587 - 31 March 2023

Abstract The cyber-criminal compromises end-hosts (bots) to configure a network of bots (botnet). The cyber-criminals are also looking for an evolved architecture that makes their techniques more resilient and stealthier such as Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. The P2P botnets leverage the privileges of the decentralized nature of P2P networks. Consequently, the P2P botnets exploit the resilience of this architecture to be arduous against take-down procedures. Some P2P botnets are smarter to be stealthy in their Command-and-Control mechanisms (C2) and elude the standard discovery mechanisms. Therefore, the other side of this cyberwar is the monitor. The P2P botnet… More >

R. T. Pavendan^1,*, K. Sankar¹, K. A. Varun Kumar²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.35, No.3, pp. 3331-3348, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.028029 - 17 August 2022

Abstract Attacks on the cyber space is getting exponential in recent times. Illegal penetrations and breaches are real threats to the individuals and organizations. Conventional security systems are good enough to detect the known threats but when it comes to Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) they fails. These APTs are targeted, more sophisticated and very persistent and incorporates lot of evasive techniques to bypass the existing defenses. Hence, there is a need for an effective defense system that can achieve a complete reliance of security. To address the above-mentioned issues, this paper proposes a novel honeypot system More >

Peng Hui Li¹, Jie Xu^1,*, Zhong Yi Xu¹, Su Chen¹, Bo Wei Niu², Jie Yin¹, Xiao Feng Sun¹, Hao Liang Lan¹, Lu Lu Chen³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 3847-3860, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.029969 - 16 June 2022

Abstract At present, the severe network security situation has put forward high requirements for network security defense technology. In order to automate botnet threat warning, this paper researches the types and characteristics of Botnet. Botnet has special characteristics in attributes such as packets, attack time interval, and packet size. In this paper, the attack data is annotated by means of string recognition and expert screening. The attack features are extracted from the labeled attack data, and then use K-means for cluster analysis. The clustering results show that the same attack data has its unique characteristics, and… More >

Yu Han¹, Tiantian Ji¹, Zhongru Wang^1,2,*, Hao Liu^3,*, Hai Jiang⁴, Wendi Wang¹, Xiang Cui⁵

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.128, No.1, pp. 247-267, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2021.015809 - 28 June 2021

Abstract A smart contract honeypot is a special type of smart contract. This type of contract seems to have obvious vulnerabilities in contract design. If a user transfers a certain amount of funds to the contract, then the user can withdraw the funds in the contract. However, once users try to take advantage of this seemingly obvious vulnerability, they will fall into a real trap. Consequently, the user’s investment in the contract cannot be retrieved. The honeypot induces other accounts to launch funds, which seriously threatens the security of property on the blockchain. Detection methods for… More >

Yanbin Sun¹, Xiaojun Pan¹, Chao Xu², Penggang Sun², Quanlong Guan³, Mohan Li^{1, *}, Men Han⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.2, pp. 1723-1737, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010593 - 20 August 2020

Abstract The security issues of industrial control systems (ICSs) have become increasingly prevalent. As an important part of ICS security, honeypots and antihoneypots have become the focus of offensive and defensive confrontation. However, research on ICS honeypots still lacks breakthroughs, and it is difficult to simulate real ICS devices perfectly. In this paper, we studied ICS honeypots to identify and address their weaknesses. First, an intelligent honeypot identification framework is proposed, based on which feature data type requirements and feature data acquisition for honeypot identification is studied. Inspired by vulnerability mining, we propose a feature acquisition More >

Wen Tian¹, Xiaopeng Ji^1,*, Weiwei Liu¹, Guangjie Liu¹, Rong Lin^1,2, Jiangtao Zhai³, Yuewei Dai³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.60, No.1, pp. 193-211, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.05290

Abstract Cyber-physical system (CPS) is an advanced system that integrats physical processes, computation and communication resources. The security of cyber-physical systems has become an active research area in recent years. In this paper, we focus on defensive strategies against network attacks in CPS. We introduce both low- and highinteraction honeypots into CPS as a security management tool deliberately designed to be probed, attacked and compromised. In addition, an analysis resource constraint is introduced for the purpose of optimizing defensive strategies against network attacks in CPS. We study the offensive and defensive interactions of CPS and model… More >