The botnet is considered as a critical issue of the Internet due to its fast growing mechanism and affect. Recently, Botnets have utilized the DNS and query DNS server just like any legitimate hosts. In this case, it is difficult to distinguish between the legitimate DNS traffic and illegitimate DNS traffic. It is important to build a suitable solution for botnet detection in the DNS traffic an...

P2P botnet is one of the most critical threats to the current Internet security. In this paper, we propose a session-based analysis and minimum vertex cover mining detecting model for core nodes of P2P botnets. This model is focused on solving the core nodes of botnet and has a good performance when the characteristics of botnet are changed to avoid detecting. The simulation experiments reveal ...

Botnets are prevailing mechanisms for the facilitation of the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on computer networks or applications. Currently, Botnet-based DDoS attacks on the application layer are latest and most problematic trends in network security threats. Botnet-based DDoS attacks on the application layer limits resources, curtails revenue, and yields customer dissatisfaction...

Botnets are recognized as one of the most dangerous threats to the Internet infrastructure. They are used for malicious activities such as launching distributed denial of service attacks, sending spam, and leaking personal information. Existing botnet detection methods produce a number of good ideas, but they are far from complete yet, since most of them cannot detect botnets in an early stage ...

Malicious software infects large numbers of computers around the world. Once compromised, the computers become part of a botnet and take part in many forms of criminal activity, including the sending of unsolicited commercial email or spam. As mobile devices become tightly integrated with the Internet, associated threats such as botnets have begun to migrate onto the devices. This paper describ...

Botnets pose a severe threat to the security of Internet-connected hosts and the availability of the Internet's infrastructure. In recent years, botnets have attracted many researchers. As a result, many achievements in studying different botnets' anatomies have been made and approaches to botnet detection have been developed. However, most of these approaches target at botnet detection using r...

Botnets have become one of the major attacks in current Internet due to their illicit profitable financial gain. Meanwhile, honeypots have been successfully deployed in many computer security defense systems. Since honeypots set up by security defenders can attract botnet compromises and become spies in exposing botnet membership and botnet attacker behaviors, they are widely used by security d...

We propose a novel stream data classification technique to detect Peer to Peer botnet. Botnet traffic can be considered as stream data having two important properties: infinite length and drifting concept. Thus, stream data classification technique is more appealing to botnet detection than simple classification technique. However, no other botnet detection approaches so far have applied stream...

Botnets continue to be an active threat against institutions and individuals worldwide. Previous research regarding botnets has unveiled information on how the system and their stakeholders operate, but an insight on the economic structure behind these stakeholders is lacking. The objective of this research is to build the business model and determine the structure of the underground botnet eco...