Malicious software—so called malware—poses a major threat to the security of computer systems. The amount and diversity of its variants render classic security defenses ineffe...
Konrad Rieck, Philipp Trinius, Carsten Willems, Th...
We study how the spread of computer viruses, worms, and other self-replicating malware is affected by the logical topology of the network over which they propagate. We consider a...
Moez Draief, Ayalvadi J. Ganesh, Laurent Massouli&...
The growing popularity of mobile networks makes them increasingly attractive to virus writers, and malicious code targeting mobile devices has already begun to appear. Unfortunate...
The damage inflicted by viruses and worms has been limited because the payloads that are most lucrative to malware authors have also posed the greatest risks to them. The problem...