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ML-Based Early Detection of IoT Botnets

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In this paper, we present EDIMA, an IoT botnet detection solution to be deployed at the edge gateway installed in home networks which targets early detection of botnets. EDIMA includes a novel two-stage machine learning (ML)-based detector which first employs ML algorithms for aggregate traffic classification and subsequently Autocorrelation Function (ACF)-based tests to detect individual bots. Performance evaluation results show that EDIMA achieves high bot scanning detection accuracies with a very low false positive rate.

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This research is supported by the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore under its Corporate Laboratory@University Scheme, National University of Singapore, and Singapore Telecommunications Ltd.

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Kumar, A., Shridhar, M., Swaminathan, S., Joon Lim, T. (2020). ML-Based Early Detection of IoT Botnets. In: Park, N., Sun, K., Foresti, S., Butler, K., Saxena, N. (eds) Security and Privacy in Communication Networks. SecureComm 2020. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 336. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63095-9_15

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