Clustering man in the middle attack on chain and graph-based blockchain in internet of things network using k-means

Abstract

Network security on internet of things (IoT) devices in the IoT development process may open rooms for hackers and other problems if not properly protected, particularly in the addition of internet connectivity to computing device systems that are interrelated in transferring data automatically over the network. This study implements network detection on IoT network security resembles security systems from man in the middle (MITM) attacks on blockchains. Security systems that exist on blockchains are decentralized and have peer to peer characteristics which are categorized into several parts based on the type of architecture that suits their use cases such as blockchain chain based and graph based. This study uses the principal component analysis (PCA) to extract features from the transaction data processing on the blockchain process and produces 9 features before the k-means algorithm with the elbow technique was used for classifying the types of MITM attacks on IoT networks and comparing the types of blockchain chain-based and graph-based architectures in the form of visualizations as well. Experimental results show 97.16% of normal data and 2.84% of MITM attack data were observed.