Unlearning to Protect: A Distilled Reinforcement Learning Framework with Privacy-Preserving Feature Unlearning and XAI for IoT Security

Botnets pose a significant cybersecurity threat, enabling attacks such as DDoS, data theft, and service disruptions on IoT devices. These devices often lack built-in botnet traffic filtering, leaving them highly exposed. Existing AI-based solutions improve detection capabilities but have limitations...