Recently, research interest in the field of infrastructure attack and defense scenarios has increased. Numerous methods have been proposed for studying strategy interactions that combine complex network theory and game theory. However, the unavoidabl...
The field of infrastructure security has garnered significant research attention. By integrating complex network theory with game theory, researchers have proposed many methods for studying the interactions between the attacker and the defender from...
Cybercriminals have become an imperative threat because they target the most valuable resource on earth, data. Organizations prepare against cyber attacks by creating Cyber Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) that use various technologies to mo...
Cybersecurity risks have become obstinate problems for critical water infrastructure management in Australia and worldwide. Water management in Australia involves a vast complex of smart technical control systems interconnected with several networks,...
Traditional security detection methods struggle to identify zero-day attacks in Industrial Control Systems (ICSs), particularly within critical infrastructures (CIs) integrated with the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). These attacks exploit unkn...
A cyber-physical system (CPS) is a combination of physical system components with cyber capabilities that have a very tight interconnectivity. CPS is a widely used technology in many applications, including electric power systems, communications, and...
The automotive domain is moving away from simple isolated vehicles to interconnected networks of heterogeneous systems forming a complex transportation infrastructure. The additional means of communication result in increased attack surfaces which ca...
Complex cyber–physical networks combine the prominent features of complex networks and cyber–physical systems (CPSs), and the interconnections between the cyber layer and physical layer usually pose significant impacts on its normal opera...
Water CIs are exposed to a wide number of IT challenges that go from the cooperation and alignment between physical and cyber security teams to the proliferation of new vulnerabilities and complex cyber-attacks with potential disastrous consequences....
In modern digital infrastructure, cyber systems are foundational, making resilience against sophisticated attacks essential. Traditional cybersecurity defenses primarily address technical vulnerabilities; however, the human element, particularly deci...
The rapid evolution of 5G technology, while offering substantial benefits, concurrently presents complex cybersecurity challenges. Current cybersecurity systems often fall short in addressing challenges such as the lack of realism of the 5G network,...
The smart grid system is one of the key infrastructures required to sustain our future society. It is a complex system that comprises two independent parts: power grids and communication networks. There have been several cyber attacks on smart grid s...
Cybersecurity in Critical Infrastructures, especially Digital Substations, has garnered significant attention from both the industrial and academic sectors. A commonly adopted approach to support research in this area involves the use of datasets, wh...
The automated identification and evaluation of potential attack paths within infrastructures is a critical aspect of cybersecurity risk assessment. However, existing methods become impractical when applied to complex infrastructures. While machine le...
The rapid evolution of network infrastructure through the softwarization of network elements has led to an exponential increase in the attack surface, thereby increasing the complexity of threat protection. In light of this pressing concern, European...
From social networks to complex infrastructures, many systems could be described by multiplex networks formed by a set of nodes connected via more than one type of links. Network disintegration, which is the problem of identifying a set of nodes or e...
Cybersecurity is a common Internet of Things security challenge. The lack of security in IoT devices has led to a great number of devices being compromised, with threats from both inside and outside the IoT infrastructure. Attacks on the IoT infrastr...
Cyber-attacks have become commonplace in the world of the Internet. The nature of cyber-attacks is gradually changing. Early cyber-attacks were usually conducted by curious personal hackers who used simple techniques to hack homepages and steal perso...
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a major threat impeding service to legitimate requests on any network. Although the first DDoS attack was reported in 1996, the complexity and sophistication of these attacks has been ever increasing. A...
The protection of critical infrastructure such as water treatment and water distribution systems is crucial for a functioning economy. The use of cyber-physical systems in these systems presents numerous vulnerabilities to attackers. To enhance secur...
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems play a crucial role in overseeing and controlling renewable energy sources like solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal resources. Nevertheless, with the expansion of conventional SCADA network infr...
Industry Revolution 4.0 connects the Internet of Things (IoT) resource-constrained devices to Smart Factory solutions and delivers insights. As a result, a complex and dynamic network with a vulnerability inherited from the Internet becomes an attrac...
The rate of technical innovation, system interconnection, and advanced communications undoubtedly boost distributed energy networks’ efficiency. However, when an additional attack surface is made available, the possibility of an increase in att...
The existing power grid is going through a massive transformation. Smart grid technology is a radical approach for improvisation in prevailing power grid. Integration of electrical and communication infrastructure is inevitable for the deployment of...
The Internet’s default inter-domain routing system, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), remains insecure. Detection techniques are dominated by approaches that involve large numbers of features, parameters, domain-specific tuning, and training,...
This article is devoted to the problem of information security in complexes with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Science knows a new promising method of information protection: moving target defense (MTD). The essence of this method is that due to pe...
The study of attack–defense game decision making in critical infrastructure systems confronting intelligent adversaries, grounded in complex network theory, has emerged as a prominent topic in the field of network security. Most existing resear...
Keeping Internet users protected from cyberattacks and other threats is one of the most prominent security challenges for network operators nowadays. Among other critical threats, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) becomes one of the most widesprea...
Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are an increasing threat for Multiprocessor System-on-Chip (MPSoC) architectures. By exploiting the shared resources on the chip, an attacker is able to prevent completion or degrade the performance of a task. This is...
As the scale of the system and network grows, IT infrastructure becomes more complex and hard to be managed. Many organizations have a serious problem to manage their system and network security. In addition, vulnerabilities of hardware and software...
The development of 5G environments has several advantages, including accelerated data transfer speeds, reduced latency, and improved energy efficiency. Nevertheless, it also increases the risk of severe cybersecurity issues, including a complex and e...
The recent worldwide turbulence of events from the pandemic lockdown through increased industrial digitization to geopolitical unease shifted towards new primary targets for the latest generation of DDoS threats. Although certain characteristics of c...
In recent years, there has been a notable surge in both the complexity and volume of targeted cyber attacks, largely due to heightened vulnerabilities in widely adopted technologies. The Prediction and detection of early attacks are vital to mitigati...
In today’s world, the safety, economic prosperity, and social well-being of nations depend heavily on highly interconnected critical infrastructures. These infrastructures encompass power networks, natural gas systems, communication networks, w...
The CPU cache is a hardware element that leaks significant information about the software running on the CPU. Particularly, any application performing sequences of memory access that depend on sensitive information, such as private keys, is susceptib...
Digital transformation embeds smart cities, e-health, and Industry 4.0 into critical infrastructures, thereby increasing reliance on digital systems and exposure to cyber threats and boosting complexity and dependency. Research involving over 200 exe...
Standalone Name Resolution (SNR) is an essential component of many Information-Centric Networking (ICN) infrastructures that maps and stores the mappings of IDs and locators. The delivery of data can be realized only when the name resolution process...
The generation of the mix-based expansion of modern power grids has urged the utilization of digital infrastructures. The introduction of Substation Automation Systems (SAS), advanced networks and communication technologies have drastically increased...
This paper proposes a hybrid deep learning algorithm for detecting and defending against DoS/DDoS attacks in software-defined networks (SDNs). SDNs are becoming increasingly popular due to their centralized control and flexibility, but this also make...
As the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) increasingly integrates with traditional networks, advanced persistent threats (APTs) pose significant risks to critical infrastructure. Traditional Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) and Anomaly Detection...
The increased interest in autonomous vehicles has led to the development of novel networking protocols in VANETs In such a widespread safety-critical application, security is paramount to the implementation of the networks. We view new autonomous veh...
Many-core system-on-chips, together with their established communication infrastructures, Networks-on-Chip (NoC), are growing in complexity, which encourages the integration of third-party components to simplify and accelerate production processes. H...
The deployment of optical network infrastructure and development of new network services are growing rapidly for beyond 5/6G networks. However, optical networks are vulnerable to several types of security threats, such as single-point failure, wormho...
As Industrial Control Systems (ICSs) increasingly adopt cloud–edge collaborative architectures, they face escalating risks from complex cross-domain cyber threats. To address this challenge, we propose a novel threat assessment framework specif...
The deep integration of digital technologies has significantly improved the operational efficiency of electricity markets, but it has also introduced increasingly severe and sophisticated cybersecurity challenges. As a highly coupled cyber–phys...
The possibility of cyber-attacks against critical infrastructure, and in particular nuclear power plants, has prompted several efforts by academia. Many of these works aim to capture the vulnerabilities of the industrial control systems used in these...
Internet of Things (IoT) devices within smart cities, require innovative detection methods. This paper addresses this critical challenge by introducing a deep learning-based approach for the detection of network traffic attacks in IoT ecosystems. Lev...
Critical infrastructures have recently been integrated with digital controls to support intelligent decision making. Although this integration provides various benefits and improvements, it also exposes the system to new cyberattacks. In particular,...
This study examines how the Russia–Ukraine conflict has affected the robustness of the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) trade network—an essential component of the global energy transition. As environmental concerns intensify worldwide,...
In recent years, there has been a tremendous increase in the use of connected devices as part of the so-called Internet of Things (IoT), both in private spaces and the industry. Integrated distributed systems have shown many benefits compared to isol...
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