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IoMT malware detection approaches: analysis and research challenges

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Wazid, Mohammad, Das, Ashok Kumar, Rodrigues, Joel J. P. C., Shetty, Sachin, Park, Youngho·2019·IEEE Access

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The advancement in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has changed the entire paradigm of computing. Because of such advancement, we have new types of computing and communication environments, for example, Internet of Things (IoT) that is a collection of smart IoT devices. The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is a specific type of IoT communication environment which deals with communication through the smart healthcare (medical) devices. Though IoT communication environment facilitates and supports our day-to-day activities, but at the same time it has also certain drawbacks as it suffers from several security and privacy issues, such as replay, man-in-the-middle, impersonation, privileged-insider, remote hijacking, password guessing and denial of service (DoS) attacks, and malware attacks. Among these attacks, the attacks which are performed through the malware botnet (i.e., Mirai) are the malignant attacks. The existence of malware botnets leads to attacks on confidentiality, integrity, authenticity and availability of the data and other resources of the system. In presence of such attacks, the sensitive data of IoT communication may be disclosed, altered or even may not be available to the authorized users. Therefore, it becomes essential to protect the IoT/IoMT environment from malware attacks. In this review paper, we first perform the study of various types of malware attacks, and their symptoms. We also discuss some architectures of IoT environment along with their applications. Next, a taxonomy of security protocols in IoT environment is provided. Moreover, we conduct a comparative study on various existing schemes for malware detection and prevention in IoT environment. Finally, some future research challenges and directions of malware detection in IoT/IoMT environment are highlighted.

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  • The work of Wazid et al. (2019) revealed several malware attacks on IoMT systems, targeting data confidentiality, integrity, authenticity, and data availability.

    “The work of (Wazid et al., 2019) has revealed several malware attacks on IoMT systems, targeting the security requirements, namely data confidentiality, integrity, authenticity, to data availability.”

    From IoMT amid COVID-19 pandemic: Application, architecture, technology, and security (2021) · cites this paper as Wazid et al., 2019

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  5. MOHAMMAD WAZID (S'15-M'17) received the M.Tech. degree in computer network engineer- ing from Graphic Era University, Dehradun, India, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and engi- neering from the International Institute of Informa- tion Technology, Hyderabad, India. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Graphic Era University. Prior to this, he was an Assistant Pro- fessor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India. He was also a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Cyber Security and Networks Lab, Innopolis University, Innop- olis, Russia. His current research interests include security, remote user authentication, the Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud computing. He has published more than 60 articles in international journals and conferences in the above areas. He was a recipient of the University Gold Medal and the Young Scientist Award by UCOST, Department of Science and Technology, Government of Uttarakhand, India. He has also received the recognition of ''Best Reviewer of 2019'' from ICT Express (Elsevier) journal.

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Authors
Wazid, M., Das, A. K., Rodrigues, J. J. P. C., Shetty, S., & Park, Y.
Affiliations
  • Graphic Era University (IN)
  • International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IN)
  • Universidade Federal do Piauí (BR)
  • Old Dominion University (US)
  • Kyungpook National University (KR)
Venue
IEEE Access
Published
2019
Volume
7
Pages
182459-182476
ISSN
2169-3536 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2996143878
Cited by
200
References
96
Citations by year
2026: 19 · 2025: 30 · 2024: 31 · 2023: 39 · 2022: 34 · 2021: 34 · 2020: 13
FWCI
12.81
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • IEEE Access (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • ODU Digital Commons (Old Dominion University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
  • National Research Foundation of Korea (2017R1A2B1002147)
  • Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
  • Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (309335/2017-5)
  • Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering [OASD (R&E)] (FA8750-15-2-0120)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Signal Processing › Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Network Security and Intrusion Detection
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
Keywords
Internet of Medical Things, malware detection, Mirai botnet, Internet of Things security, smart healthcare devices, security protocols, malware protection, denial-of-service attacks, privacy attacks, research challenges

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