In this paper we highlight a number of challenges that arise in using crawling to measure the size, topology, and dynamism of distributed botnets. These challenges include traffic...
Chris Kanich, Kirill Levchenko, Brandon Enright, G...
Large-scale distributed denial of service (DoS) attacks are an unfortunate everyday reality on the Internet. They are simple to execute and with the growing prevalence and size of...
Colin Dixon, Thomas E. Anderson, Arvind Krishnamur...
Accurately identifying spam campaigns launched by a large number of bots in a botnet allows for accurate spam campaign signature generation and hence is critical to defeating spam...
Abhinav Pathak, Feng Qian, Y. Charlie Hu, Zhuoqing...
This paper studies the network-level behavior of spammers, including: IP address ranges that send the most spam, common spamming modes (e.g., BGP route hijacking, bots), how persi...
We present an automated, scalable, method for crafting dynamic responses to real-time network requests. Specifically, we provide a flexible technique based on natural language pro...
Sam Small, Joshua Mason, Fabian Monrose, Niels Pro...