Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities make it possible for worms to spread quickly to a broad range of users on popular Web sites. To date, the detection of XSS worms has been...
Past active Internet worms have caused widespread damage. Knowing the connection characteristics of such a worm very early in its proliferation cycle might provide first responde...
Worms continue to be a leading security threat on the Internet. This paper analyzes several of the more widespread worms and develops a general life-cycle for them. The lifecycle,...
Florian P. Buchholz, Thomas E. Daniels, James P. E...
Recent popularity of interactive AJAX-based Web 2.0 applications has given rise to a new breed of security threats: JavaScript worms. In this paper we propose Spectator, the first...
Modern worms can spread so quickly that any countermeasure based on human reaction might not be fast enough. Recent research has focused on devising algorithms to automatically pr...
Lorenzo Cavallaro, Andrea Lanzi, Luca Mayer, Matti...