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International Symposium on Intelligent and Distributed Computing

IDC 2019: Intelligent Distributed Computing XIII pp 255–265Cite as

A Note on Analysing the Attacker Aims Behind DDoS Attacks

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Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks pose a serious threat to the availability of online resources. In this paper, we analyse the attacker aims for the use of DDoS attacks. We propose a model that can be used to evaluate news articles for determining probable aims of attackers. Thereafter, we apply this model to evaluate 27 distinct attack events from 2016. We make use of a DDoS specific longitudinal news database to select these attack events. We find the proposed model useful in analysing attack aims. We also find that in some cases attackers might target a web infrastructure just because it is virtually invincible.

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Notes

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    Google Alerts is a content change detection and notification service. A user of this service can keep themselves updated about the topic of their choice. The service notifies with two types of alerts: (1) News (2) Web. News alerts report about content posted on news websites, all others are categorised as web alerts.

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Acknowledgments

This work is part of the NWO: D3 project, which is funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (628.001.018).

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  1. University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Abhishta Abhishta, Marianne Junger, Reinoud Joosten & Lambert J. M. Nieuwenhuis

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  1. SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Igor Kotenko

  2. University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania

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  3. SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Vasily Desnitsky

  4. LAAS - CNRS, Toulouse Cedex 4, France

    Didier El Baz

  5. University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

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Abhishta, A., Junger, M., Joosten, R., Nieuwenhuis, L.J.M. (2020). A Note on Analysing the Attacker Aims Behind DDoS Attacks. In: Kotenko, I., Badica, C., Desnitsky, V., El Baz, D., Ivanovic, M. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing XIII. IDC 2019. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 868. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32258-8_30

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