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The transmission of information, ideas, and thoughts requires communication, which is a crucial component of human contact. The utilization of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is a result of the advent of enormous volumes of messages delivered over the internet. The IoT botnet assault, which attempts to perform genuine, lucrative, and effective cybercrimes, is one of the most critical IoT dangers. To identify and prevent botnet assaults on connected computers, this study uses both quantitative and qualitative approaches. This study employs three basic machine learning (ML) techniques—random forest (RF), decision tree (DT), and generalized linear model (GLM)—and a stacking ensemble model to detect botnets in computer network traffic. The results reveled that random forest attained the best performance with a coefficient of determination (R2) of 0.9977, followed by decision tree with an R2 of 0.9882, while GLM was the worst among the basic machine learning models with an R2 of 0.9522. Almost all ML models achieved satisfactory performance, with an R2 above 0.93. Overall, the stacking ensemble model obtained the best performance, with a root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.0084 m, a mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.0641 m, and an R2 of 0.9997. Regarding the stacking ensemble model as compared with the single machine learning models, the R2 of the stacking ensemble machine learning increased by 0.2% compared to the RF, 1.15% compared to the DT, and 3.75% compared to the GLM, while RMSE decreased by approximately 0.15% compared to the GLM, DT, and RF single machine learning techniques. Furthermore, this paper suggests best practices for preventing botnet attacks. Businesses should make major investments to combat botnets. This work contributes to knowledge by presenting a novel method for detecting botnet assaults using an artificial-intelligence-powered solution with real-time behavioral analysis. This study can assist companies, organizations, and government bodies in making informed decisions for a safer network that will increase productivity.
The transmission of information, ideas, and thoughts requires communication, which is a crucial component of human contact. The utilization of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is a result of the advent of enormous volumes of messages delivered over the internet. The IoT botnet assault, which attempts to perform genuine, lucrative, and effective cybercrimes, is one of the most critical IoT dangers. To identify and prevent botnet assaults on connected computers, this study uses both quantitative and qualitative approaches. This study employs three basic machine learning (ML) techniques—random forest (RF), decision tree (DT), and generalized linear model (GLM)—and a stacking ensemble model to detect botnets in computer network traffic. The results reveled that random forest attained the best performance with a coefficient of determination (R2) of 0.9977, followed by decision tree with an R2 of 0.9882, while GLM was the worst among the basic machine learning models with an R2 of 0.9522. Almost all ML models achieved satisfactory performance, with an R2 above 0.93. Overall, the stacking ensemble model obtained the best performance, with a root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.0084 m, a mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.0641 m, and an R2 of 0.9997. Regarding the stacking ensemble model as compared with the single machine learning models, the R2 of the stacking ensemble machine learning increased by 0.2% compared to the RF, 1.15% compared to the DT, and 3.75% compared to the GLM, while RMSE decreased by approximately 0.15% compared to the GLM, DT, and RF single machine learning techniques. Furthermore, this paper suggests best practices for preventing botnet attacks. Businesses should make major investments to combat botnets. This work contributes to knowledge by presenting a novel method for detecting botnet assaults using an artificial-intelligence-powered solution with real-time behavioral analysis. This study can assist companies, organizations, and government bodies in making informed decisions for a safer network that will increase productivity.
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