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DIMVA
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Evaluating Bluetooth as a Medium for Botnet Command and Control
Abstract. Malware targeting mobile phones is being studied with increasing interest by the research community. While such attention has previously focused on viruses and worms, man...
Kapil Singh, Samrit Sangal, Nehil Jain, Patrick Tr...
DSN
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Evaluating email's feasibility for botnet command and control
The usefulness ofemail has been tempered by its role in the widespread distribution ofspam and malicious content. Security solutions have.focused on filtering out malicious payloa...
Kapil Singh, Abhinav Srivastava, Jonathon T. Giffi...
NSDI
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Measurements and Mitigation of Peer-to-Peer-based Botnets: A Case Study on Storm Worm
Botnets, i.e., networks of compromised machines under a common control infrastructure, are commonly controlled by an attacker with the help of a central server: all compromised ma...
Thorsten Holz, Moritz Steiner, Frederic Dahl, Erns...
CCS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Automatic discovery of botnet communities on large-scale communication networks
Botnets are networks of compromised computers infected with malicious code that can be controlled remotely under a common command and control (C&C) channel. Recognized as one ...
Wei Lu, Mahbod Tavallaee, Ali A. Ghorbani
ACNS
2011
Springer
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12 years 8 months ago
Quantitatively Analyzing Stealthy Communication Channels
Abstract. Attackers in particular botnet controllers use stealthy messaging systems to set up large-scale command and control. Understanding the capacity of such communication chan...
Patrick Butler, Kui Xu, Danfeng (Daphne) Yao