In order to evade detection of ever-improving defense techniques, modern botnet masters are constantly looking for new communication platforms for delivering C&C (Command and Control) information. Attracting their attention is the emergence of online social networks such as Twitter, as the information dissemination mechanism provided by these networks can naturally be exploited for spreading bo...

Cyber attacks on the Internet of Things (IoT) have seen a significant increase in recent years. This is primarily due to widespread adoption and prevalence IoT within domestic critical national infrastructures, as well inherent security vulnerabilities endpoints. Therein, botnets emerged major threat IoT-based infrastructures targeting firmware such weak or default passwords assemble an army co...

A botnet is a malware program that hacker remotely controls called botmaster. Botnet can perform massive cyber-attacks such as DDOS, SPAM, click-fraud, information, and identity stealing. The also avoid being detected by security system. traditional method of detecting botnets commonly used signature-based analysis unable to detect unseen botnets. behavior-based seems like promising solution th...

Botnets are networks of computers infected with malicious programs that allow cybercriminals/botnet herders to control the infected machines remotely without the user’s knowledge. In many cases, botnet herders are motivated by economic incentives and try to significantly profit from illegal botnet activity while causing significant economic damage to society. To analyze the economic aspects of ...

Botnets have become an increasing security concern in today’s Internet. Since current technological defenses against botnets have failed to produce results, it has become necessary to think about different strategies. Given that money is perhaps the single determining force driving the growth in botnet attacks, we propose an interesting economic approach to take away the root cause of botnet, i...

Please cite this article in press as: K. Wang et doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2011.05.026 Botnet has become a popular technique for deploying Internet crimes. Although signaturebased bot detection techniques are accurate, they could be useless when bot variants are encountered. Therefore, behavior-based detection techniques become attractive due to their ability to detect bot variants and even unknown ...