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NDSS
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Modeling Botnet Propagation Using Time Zones
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...
David Dagon, Cliff Changchun Zou, Wenke Lee
CCS
2010
ACM
15 years 18 days ago
Fast-flux service network detection based on spatial snapshot mechanism for delay-free detection
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 ...
Si-Yu Huang, Ching-Hao Mao, Hahn-Ming Lee
VALUETOOLS
2006
ACM
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15 years 3 months ago
Thresholds for virus spread on networks
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&...
USS
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Measurement and Classification of Humans and Bots in Internet Chat
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...
CCS
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Your botnet is my botnet: analysis of a botnet takeover
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, ...