Deep Learning Method for Prediction of DDoS Attacks on Social Media

Abstract

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 the 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, [Formula: see text]-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.