Botnets, networks of malware-infected machines that are controlled by an adversary, are the root cause of a large number of security problems on the Internet. A particularly sophi...
Brett Stone-Gross, Marco Cova, Bob Gilbert, Richar...
A "botnet" consists of a network of compromised computers controlled by an attacker ("botmaster"). Recently botnets have become the root cause of many Internet ...
Botnets are a serious threat on the Internet and require huge resources to be thwarted. ISPs are in the best position to fight botnets and there are a number of recently proposed i...
Nevena Vratonjic, Mohammad Hossein Manshaei, Maxim...
—Malware and botnets pose a steady and growing threat to network security. Therefore, packet analysis systems examine network traffic to detect active botnets and spreading worm...
The academic community has long acknowledged the existence of malicious botnets, however to date, very little is known about the behavior of these distributed computing platforms....
Moheeb Abu Rajab, Jay Zarfoss, Fabian Monrose, And...
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...
Because “botnets” can be used for illicit financial gain, they have become quite popular in recent Internet attacks. “Honeypots” have been successfully deployed in many d...
In this paper, we propose three metrics for detecting botnets through analyzing their behavior. Our social infrastructure (i.e., the Internet) is currently experiencing the danger...
Recently, Botnet has been used to launch spam-mail, key-logging, and DDoS attacks. Botnet is a network of bots which are controlled by attacker. A lot of detection mechanisms have ...