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arXiv:2206.13594 (cs)
[Submitted on 27 Jun 2022 (v1), last revised 8 Oct 2022 (this version, v2)]
Title:Cyber Network Resilience against Self-Propagating Malware Attacks
Authors:Alesia Chernikova,Nicolò Gozzi,Simona Boboila,Priyanka Angadi,John Loughner,Matthew Wilden,Nicola Perra,Tina Eliassi-Rad,Alina Oprea
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View PDFAbstract:Self-propagating malware (SPM) has led to huge financial losses, major data breaches, and widespread service disruptions in recent years. In this paper, we explore the problem of developing cyber resilient systems capable of mitigating the spread of SPM attacks. We begin with an in-depth study of a well-known self-propagating malware, WannaCry, and present a compartmental model called SIIDR that accurately captures the behavior observed in real-world attack traces. Next, we investigate ten cyber defense techniques, including existing edge and node hardening strategies, as well as newly developed methods based on reconfiguring network communication (NodeSplit) and isolating communities. We evaluate all defense strategies in detail using six real-world communication graphs collected from a large retail network and compare their performance across a wide range of attacks and network topologies. We show that several of these defenses are able to efficiently reduce the spread of SPM attacks modeled with SIIDR. For instance, given a strong attack that infects 97% of nodes when no defense is employed, strategically securing a small number of nodes (0.08%) reduces the infection footprint in one of the networks down to 1%.
| Comments: | 20 pages |
| Subjects: | Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Dynamical Systems (math.DS); Spectral Theory (math.SP); Applications (stat.AP) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2206.13594 [cs.CR] |
| (orarXiv:2206.13594v2 [cs.CR] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2206.13594 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite | |
| Related DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17140-6_26 DOI(s) linking to related resources |
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From: Alesia Chernikova [view email][v1] Mon, 27 Jun 2022 19:20:00 UTC (1,443 KB)
[v2] Sat, 8 Oct 2022 20:42:13 UTC (1,335 KB)
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