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LCN
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Detecting Botnets with Tight Command and Control
Systems are attempting to detect botnets by examining traffic content for IRC commands or by setting up honeynets. Our approach for detecting botnets is to examine flow characteri...
W. Timothy Strayer, Robert Walsh, Carl Livadas, Da...
CCS
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Automatic discovery of botnet communities on large-scale communication networks
Botnets are networks of compromised computers infected with malicious code that can be controlled remotely under a common command and control (C&C) channel. Recognized as one ...
Wei Lu, Mahbod Tavallaee, Ali A. Ghorbani
ESORICS
2009
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Automatically Generating Models for Botnet Detection
A botnet is a network of compromised hosts that is under the control of a single, malicious entity, often called the botmaster. We present a system that aims to detect bots, indepe...
Peter Wurzinger, Leyla Bilge, Thorsten Holz, Jan G...
ACNS
2011
Springer
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12 years 11 months ago
Quantitatively Analyzing Stealthy Communication Channels
Abstract. Attackers in particular botnet controllers use stealthy messaging systems to set up large-scale command and control. Understanding the capacity of such communication chan...
Patrick Butler, Kui Xu, Danfeng (Daphne) Yao