In this paper, we study search bot traffic from search engine query logs at a large scale. Although bots that generate search traffic aggressively can be easily detected, a large ...
Malicious web pages that host drive-by-download exploits have become a popular means for compromising hosts on the Internet and, subsequently, for creating large-scale botnets. In...
Davide Canali, Marco Cova, Giovanni Vigna, Christo...
Identifying groups of Internet hosts with a similar behavior is very useful for many applications of Internet security control, such as DDoS defense, worm and virus detection, dete...
—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...