Data Traffic Modeling During Global Cyberattacks
Volodymyr Mosorov, Andrzej Kosowski, Roman Kolodiy, Zenoviy Kharkhalis · International Journal of Computer Network and Information Security · 2015
The article analyses the possibilities and techniques of modeling global cyber-attacks on an internetwork of small countries.The authors study the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against Estonian internetwork, which took place in 2007, in an open-source Nessi 2 simulator environment, as DDoS appears to be the most common type of informational attack on resources used todeay.Such a modeling can be replicated with a certain degree of accuracy because the most of powerful attacks have been relatively welldocumented.The article covers the most lifelike attack scenarios accomplished by sophisticated modeling of underlying traffic cases.Conclusions drawn from the simulation show that even large-scale DDoS attacks can be successfully modeled using limited resources only.Future research directions, motivated by the research, underlying this article, are highlighted at the end.