Botnets, which consist of thousands of compromised machines, can cause significant threats to other systems by launching Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, keylogging, a...
Botnets are large groups of compromised machines (bots) used by miscreants for the most illegal activities (e.g., sending spam emails, denial-of-service attacks, phishing and other...
Emanuele Passerini, Roberto Paleari, Lorenzo Marti...
Time zones play an important and unexplored role in malware epidemics. To understand how time and location affect malware spread dynamics, we studied botnets, or large coordinated...
The trend toward smaller botnets may be more dangerous than large botnets, in terms of large-scale attacks like distributed denials of service. We examine the possibility of “su...