Time zones play an important and unexplored role in malware epidemics. To understand how time and location affect malware spread dynamics, we studied botnets, or large coordinated...
Capturing Fast-Flux Service Networks (FFSNs) by temporal variances is an intuitive way for seeking to identify rapid changes of DNS records. Unfortunately, the features regard to ...
We study how the spread of computer viruses, worms, and other self-replicating malware is affected by the logical topology of the network over which they propagate. We consider a...
Moez Draief, Ayalvadi J. Ganesh, Laurent Massouli&...
The abuse of chat services by automated programs, known as chat bots, poses a serious threat to Internet users. Chat bots target popular chat networks to distribute spam and malwa...
Steven Gianvecchio, Mengjun Xie, Zhengyu Wu, Haini...
Botnets, networks of malware-infected machines that are controlled by an adversary, are the root cause of a large number of security problems on the Internet. A particularly sophi...
Brett Stone-Gross, Marco Cova, Lorenzo Cavallaro, ...