Is it congestion or a DDoS attack?

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-14-2009

Abstract

We propose a new stealthy DDoS attack model referred to as the "quiet" attack. The attack traffic consists of TCP traffic only. Widely used botnets in today's various attacks and newly introduced network feedback control are integral part of the quiet attack model. We show that shortlived TCP flows can be intentionally misused. The quiet attack is detrimental to the Internet traffic and at the same time difficult to be detected by using current defense systems. We demonstrate the inability of representative defense schemes such as adaptive queue management and aggregate congestion control to detect the quiet attack. © 2009 IEEE.

Identifier

68349137657 (Scopus)

Publication Title

IEEE Communications Letters

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2009.090628

ISSN

10897798

First Page

546

Last Page

548

Issue

7

Volume

13

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