Effective Attack Handling Methods for Layer Wise Spoofing Based Man in the Middle Attacks in Machine to Machine Networks

Machine to Machine networks (M2M) is a technology where all the devices worldwide are interconnected through the Internet to exchange information between the devices without human interventions. M2M networks is considered to be the intelligent connection and communication between machines. Machine to Machine networks is used for remote monitoring of the machines, and it has laid the foundation for IoT technology. In M2M networks architecture, all the devices are connected through a powerful device called gateway to transmit information. Every node in the Machine-to- Machine networks collects a data through sensors, and the collected data is transmitted to other networks through M2M gateways.

M2M networks encounters several attacks. Man in The Middle attack (MTTM) is one of the oldest and classic cyber-attacks that compromises all the CTA rules, and it belongs to both Active and Passive attack types. The attackers intend to steal sensitive information or credentials and eavesdrop the data to intercept or modify or delete the data.

There are many different forms of threats, attacks, and vulnerabilities that may corrupt and compromise the system's security, which affects Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability. Conceptually, Network attacks classified into active attacks that get access to system resources and passive attacks that do not. Active attacks are those in which the attacker acquires unlawful access to the system's resources. However, MITM attack's belong to both active and passive attacks.