Azerbaijan National Academy of Science

The article “Deep Learning Method for Prediction of DDoS Attacks on Social Media” (DOI: 10.1142 / S2424922X19500025) was published in “Advances in Data Science and Adaptive Analysis”.

The co-authors of the article are the vice-president of ANAS, director of the Institute of Information Technology of ANAS, academician Rasim Alguliyev, head of the department of the institute, corresponding member of ANAS Ramiz Aliguliyev and a leading researcher of the institute, Ph.D. Fargana Abdullayeva.

Recently, data collected from social media enable to analyze social events and make predictions about real events, based on the analysis of sentiments and opinions of users. Most cyber-attacks are carried out by hackers on the basis of discussions on social media. This paper proposes a method that predicts DDoS attacks occurrence by finding relevant texts in social media. To perform high-precision classification of texts to positive and negative classes, the CNN model with 13 layers and improved LSTM method are used. In order to predict the occurrence of the DDoS attacks in the next day, the negative and positive sentiments in social networking texts are used. To evaluate the efficiency of the proposed method experiments were conducted on Twitter data. The proposed method achieved a recall, precision, FF-measure, training loss, training accuracy, testing loss, and test accuracy of 0.85, 0.89, 0.87, 0.09, 0.78, 0.13, and 0.77, respectively.

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