—Flash-crowd attacks are the most vicious form of distributed denial of service (DDoS). They flood the victim with service requests generated from numerous bots. Attack requests...
Web mail providers rely on users to “vote” to quickly and collaboratively identify spam messages. Unfortunately, spammers have begun to use bots to control large collections o...
Anirudh Ramachandran, Anirban Dasgupta, Nick Feams...
Abstract. In recent years, we have seen the arrival of Distributed Denial-ofService (DDoS) open-source bot-based attack tools facilitating easy code enhancement, and so resulting i...
Vrizlynn L. L. Thing, Morris Sloman, Naranker Dula...
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 ...
—Peer-to-peer (P2P) substrates are now widely used for both file-sharing and botnet command-andcontrol. Despite the commonality of their substrates, we show that the different g...