This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a new security algorithm called a modified cooperative bait detection scheme to detect black hole attacks in the Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) protocol for mobile ad hoc networks. The proposed approach involves three steps: 1) initial setup to detect potential malicious nodes, 2) attack identification using reverse tracing to find harmful and non-harmful nodes in the transmission path, and 3) a reactive protection step to locate malicious locations based on energy cost. Experimental results showed that the proposed method performed better than existing approaches in terms of detection accuracy, misclassification rate, detection time, and other metrics.