ITIIS
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
There is a well-defined propagation model, named the random constant spread (RCS) model, which explains worms that spread their clones with a random scanning strategy. This model ...
SPRINGSIM
2007
13 years 12 months ago
2007
— Stochastic activity networks (SANs) are a widely used formalism for describing complex systems that have random behavior. Sophisticated software tools exist for the modeling an...
DIMVA
2008
14 years 5 days ago
2008
Abstract. Stealthy malware, such as botnets and spyware, are hard to detect because their activities are subtle and do not disrupt the network, in contrast to DoS attacks and aggre...
IMC
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2006
ACM
In recent years, more than 200 viruses have been reported to use a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network as a propagation vector. Disguised as files that are frequently exchan...
ICC
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2008
IEEE
—This work presents a closed-form expression for characterizing the spread of static worm-scanning strategies through a mean-field approximation. Our model can both accurately c...
CCS
2009
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
Modern advanced botnets may employ a decentralized peer-to-peer overlay network to bootstrap and maintain their command and control channels, making them more resilient to traditi...