A key feature that distinguishes modern botnets from earlier counterparts is their increasing use of structured overlay topologies. This lets them carry out sophisticated coordina...
Spamming botnets present a critical challenge in the control of spam messages due to the sheer volume and wide spread of the botnet members. In this paper we advocate the approach...
Abstract— Ensuring the security of computers is a nontrivial task, with many techniques used by malicious users to compromise these systems. In recent years a new threat has emer...
A future where Internet Telephony will constitute a target valuable to attack is not so unrealistic. E-mail spam botnets software can be updated to send voice spam (commonly referr...
Federico Menna, Renato Lo Cigno, Saverio Niccolini...
Relay nodes are a potential threat to networks since they are used in many malicious situations like stepping stone attacks, botnet communication, peer-to-peer streaming etc. Quic...