Botnets are networks built up of a large number of bot computers, which provide the attacker with massive resources, such as bandwidth, storage, and processing power, in turn, allowing the attacker to launch massive attacks, such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, or undertake spamming or phishing campaigns. One of the main approaches for botnet detection is based on monitoring an...

Botnets have become a major threat to the Internet as large armies of bot machines can be used to carry out a wide range of attacks. We present a botnet detection mechanism that uses two levels of support vector machines (SVMs) to identify infected bot machines before they are used in an attack. Our technique detects relationships in the networkflows dynamically and determines if such relations...

In recent years, with the rapid growth of the Internet applications and services, botnet becomes one of the most severe threats on the Internet. Because the botnets can be automatically evolved as different localized versions in a short period of time, how to find an effective and efficient approach to detect and notify the Botnet attack becomes an important and interesting issue. To cope with ...

Today botnets are still one of the most prevalent and devastating attacking platforms that cyber criminals rely on to launch large scale Internet attacks. Botmasters behind the scenes are becoming more agile and discreet, and some new and sophisticated strategies are adopted to recruit bots and schedule their activities to evade detection more effectively. In this paper, we conduct a measuremen...

Since they were first used, systems have faced threats from viruses, worms, and hacking attacks. In 2018, there more devices online than people, this tendency will continue to grow, with an estimated 80 billion by 2024. It is difficult secure equipment the data that flows between them since IoT botnet attacks (IBA) are becoming common. Potential hackers for theft cyberattacks been enticed overw...

Botnets have become an increasing security concern in today’s Internet. Thus far the mitigation to botnet attacks is a never ending arms race focusing on technical approaches. In this paper, we model botnet-related cybercrimes as a result of profit-maximizing decision-making from the perspectives of both botnet masters and renters/attackers. From this economic model, we can understand the effec...