SSHafe: A Real-Time SSH Brute Force Attack Detection and Novel Credential Rotation Standard

SSH remains a critical yet heavily targeted protocol for remote system administration, with password-based authentication exposing servers to large-scale brute-force, dictionary, and credential-spray attacks. Existing rule-based defences such as Fail2Ban fail to detect slow, distributed, or...

Evaluation of Real-Time Mitigation Techniques for Cyber Security in IEC 61850 / IEC 62351 Substations

The digitalization of substations enlarges the cyber-attack surface, necessitating effective detection and mitigation of cyber attacks in digital substations. While machine learning-based intrusion detection has been widely explored, such methods have not demonstrated detection and mitigation...

Introducing Integrated API Abuse Prevention to Combat Bad Bots

In recent years theres been a rise in "API Abuse" attacks, which includes detrimental automated behaviors such as malicious bots, account takeover ATO, credential stuffing, application layer L7 DDoS, data scraping, and more. For instance, in April-2021 malicious actors scraped the personal data o...