Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
Vol 15, No 1: February 2026

Hybrid AI-driven anomaly detection and sequential attack classification for securing IoT networks

Gauri Sameer Rapate (PES University)
Ambuja Krishnappa (BMS College of Engineering)
Sarala Duggonahalli Veeresh (BMS College of Engineering)
Karanam Sunil Kumar (R.V. College of Engineering)
Bellary Kursheed (Don Bosco Institute of Technology)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Feb 2026

Abstract

Internet of things (IoT) systems are often inherently heterogeneous and the constantly evolving cyber threat presents a variety of attack vectors that can expose sensitive data across multiple mission-critical applications. The existing intrusion detection methods are often prone to zero-day attacks and specific to limited known intrusions. This paper designs a hybrid and multi level cyber-threat detection framework based on the robust data preprocessing scheme, correlation-based optimal feature selection and integrated anomaly and intrusion detection using a supervised learning approach. In the first stage, a random forest (RF)-based binary anomaly detector is designed as a fast primary threat filter against zero-day threats by detecting traffic anomalies without any prior attack signal. In the second stage, an adaptive, time-aware long short-term memory (LSTM) model performs multi-class intrusion classification using time-lag analysis in traffic flows to accurately identify and classify known attack types with high precision. The proposed framework is evaluated on the network flow telemetry of network–internet of things–version 2 (NF-ToN-IoT-V2) dataset and achieved 99% accuracy in both binary and multiclass settings, with a lower response time of 7.8 ms.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

EEI

Publisher

Subject

Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Description

Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (Buletin Teknik Elektro dan Informatika) ISSN: 2089-3191, e-ISSN: 2302-9285 is open to submission from scholars and experts in the wide areas of electrical, electronics, instrumentation, control, telecommunication and computer engineering from the ...