– The goal of this research was to design a multi-layered architecture for the detection of a wide range of existing and new botnets. By not relying on a single technique but rather building in the ability to support multiple techniques, the goal is to be able to detect a wider array of bots and botnets than is possible with a single technique. The open architecture and API will allow any techn...

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The Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) is used to believe that a human is using the web service [1]. For the online services which are been provided in web services is been abused by automated bots over the internet. So CAPTCHA is used as a protection from these malicious programs for web security. But the bots are intelligent enough to break th...

This paper provides an overview of the SWARM-BOTS project, a robotics project sponsored by the Future and Emerging Technologies program of the European Commission (IST-2000-31010). We describe the s-bot, a small autonomous robot with self-assembling capabilities that we designed and built within the project. Then we illustrate the cooperative object transport scenario that we chose to use as a ...

Internet bots have been widely used for various beneficial and malicious activities on the web. In this paper we provide new insights into a new kind of bot termed as web spambot which is primarily used for spreading spam content on the web. To gain insights into web spambots, we developed a tool (HoneySpam 2.0) to track their behaviour. This paper presents two main contributions, firstly it de...

This paper presents a new robotic concept, called SWARM-BOT, based on a swarm of autonomous mobile robots with self-assembling capabilities. SWARM-BOT takes advantage from collective and distributed approaches to ensure robustness to failures and to hard environment conditions in tasks such as navigation, search and transportation in rough terrain. One SWARM-BOT is composed of a number of simpl...

There is abundant anecdotal evidence that nondemocratic regimes are harnessing new digital technologies known as social media bots to facilitate policy goals. However, few previous attempts have been made systematically analyze the use of aimed at a domestic audience in autocratic regimes. We develop two alternative theoretical frameworks for predicting pro-regime bots: one which focuses on bot...

The Asprox infection weaves a complex chain of dependencies involving bots that perform SQL injections on vulnerable web servers, and visitors whose machines get compromised simply by visiting infected websites. Using real-world data sets, we study Asprox bots, infected web servers, and the malicious infrastructure behind Asprox propagation. We find that themalware-propagation infrastructure in...