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ACSAC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Taxonomy of Botnet Structures
We propose a taxonomy of botnet structures, based on their utility to the botmaster. We propose key metrics to measure their utility for various activities (e.g., spam, ddos). Usi...
David Dagon, Guofei Gu, Christopher P. Lee, Wenke ...
NDSS
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Army of Botnets
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...
Ryan Vogt, John Aycock, Michael J. Jacobson Jr.
DSN
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Honeypot-Aware Advanced Botnet Construction and Maintenance
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...
Cliff Changchun Zou, Ryan Cunningham
DSN
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
On the effectiveness of structural detection and defense against P2P-based botnets
Recently, peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have emerged as a covert communication platform for malicious programs known as bots. As popular distributed systems, they allow bots to comm...
Duc T. Ha, Guanhua Yan, Stephan Eidenbenz, Hung Q....
IJIPT
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Detecting and blocking P2P botnets through contact tracing chains
: Peer-to-peer (P2P) botnets have recently become serious security threats on the internet. It is difficult to detect the propagation of P2P botnets by isolated monitoring on indiv...
Zhiyong Huang, Xiaoping Zeng, Yong Liu