3 papers
cs.CR2025
Hunting in the Dark: Metrics for Early Stage Traffic Discovery
Max Gao, Michael Collins, Ricky Mok +1
Threat hunting is an operational security process where an expert analyzes traffic, applying knowledge and lightweight tools on unlabeled data in order to identify and classify pre…
cs.NI2025
Unveiling IPv6 Scanning Dynamics: A Longitudinal Study Using Large Scale Proactive and Passive IPv6 Telescopes
Hammas Bin Tanveer, Wai Sun Chan, Ricky K. P. Mok +6
We introduce new tools and vantage points to develop and integrate proactive techniques to attract IPv6 scan traffic, thus enabling its analysis. By deploying the largest-ever IPv6…
cs.CR2024
The Age of DDoScovery: An Empirical Comparison of Industry and Academic DDoS Assessments
Raphael Hiesgen, Marcin Nawrocki, Marinho Barcellos +14
Motivated by the impressive but diffuse scope of DDoS research and reporting, we undertake a multistakeholder (joint industry-academic) analysis to seek convergence across the best…