Botnets: The Real Threat

In this essay, the author

• Explains that botnets pose one of the most severe threats to the internet. bot technology is rapidly developing, supported and backed, by the open-source movement.
• Introduces sheila banks and martin stytz to the international society for optical engineering (spie).
• Explains that botnet tracking: exploring a root-cause methodology to prevent distributed denial-of-service attacks.

• Explains that botnets pose one of the most severe threats to the internet. bot technology is rapidly developing, supported and backed, by the open-source movement.
• Introduces sheila banks and martin stytz to the international society for optical engineering (spie).
• Explains that botnet tracking: exploring a root-cause methodology to prevent distributed denial-of-service attacks.
• Presents a multifaceted approach to understanding the botnet phenomenon, in proceedings of the 6th acm sigcomm conference on internet measurement.
• Explains hao tu, zhi-tang li, and bin liu, detecting botnets by analyzing dns traffic.
• Explains that botnet traffic detection techniques by c&c session classification using svm, in iwsec 2007, lncs 4752, berlin heidelberg, 2007.
• Cites paul barford and vinod yegneswaran's an inside look at botnets in: malware detection, springer us.
• Presents vinoo thomas and nitin jyoti's article in computer virology, volume 3, number 2, pages 103-111, april 2007.
• Describes jerome françois, radu state, and olivier festor's botnets for scalable management, in dsom 2007, lncs 4785.
• Describes s' contributions to the book antisocial networks: turning a social network into a botnet.
• Cites jun hu, zhitang li, dezhong yao, and junfeng yu. measuring botnet size by using url and collaborative mail servers.
• Presents the proceedings of the international conference on security technology (sectech '08), hainan island, pages 83 – 86.
• Introduces wang, p., sparks, s. and zou, c. on an advanced hybrid peer-to-peer botnet.
• Explains van ruitenbeek, e., and sanders, w.h.: modeling peer-to-peer botnets. in proceedings of the fifth international conference on quantitative evaluation of systems.
• Explains that p2p as botnet command and control: a deeper insight. in proceedings of the 3rd international conference on malicious and unwanted software (malware 2008), fairfax, vi, pages 41-48.
• Explains hund, r. hamann, m., and holz, t. towards next-generation botnets, in proceedings of the european conference on computer network defense (ec2nd 2008), dublin.
• Introduces chun wei, alan sprague, and gary warner. detection of networks blocks used by the storm worm botnet.
• Describes duc t. ha, guanhua yan, eidenbenz, s., and ngo, h.q.
• Presents su chang and thomas e. daniels' paper on p2p botnet detection using behavior clustering & statistical tests.
• Describes the nodes in a peer-to-peer botnet in proceedings of the 4th international symposium on information, computer, and communications security, sydney, australia.
• Introduces junfeng yu, zhitang li, jun hu, feng liu, and lingyun zhou in proceedings of the international conference on computer modeling and simulation (iccms '09).
• Describes junfeng yu, zhitang li, jun hu, feng liu, and lingyun zhou's contributions to the international conference on networks security, wireless communications and trusted computing.
• Presents jian kang, jun-yao zhang, qiang li, and zhuo li's work on detecting new p2p botnet with multi-chart.
• Describes elizabeth stinson and john c. mitchell's book, detection of intrusions and malware, and vulnerability assessment.
• Cites thing, sloman, and dulay, in ifip international federation for information processing volume 232, new approaches for security, privacy and trust in complex environments.
• Describes yinglian xie, fang yu, kannan achan, rina panigrahy, geoff hulten, and ivan osipkov. spamming botnets: signatures and characteristics.
• Explains nazario, j., and holz, t. as the net churns: fast-flux botnet observations in proceedings of the 3rd international conference on malicious and unwanted software, fairfax, vi.
• Explains that botgad detects botnets by capturing group activities in network traffic, in proceedings of the fourth international icst conference on communication system software and middleware.
• Presents wei lu, mahbod tavallaee, and ali a. ghorbani's paper, automatic discovery of botnet communities on large-scale communication networks.
• Explains that the periodic repeatability feature of malicious http bots is a good reason to detect them.
• Explains that malicious software (called bots or ‘bot armies’) hidden in large numbers of computers may cause extraordinary likely damage to the internet.
• Explains how bots are installed through all types of attacking techniques like trojan horses, worms, and viruses. bots with a large number of computers have enormous cumulative bandwidth and computing capability.
• Explains the purpose of this literature review is to study the structure of botnets such as irc, p2p, http and miscellaneous.
• Explains that botnets are regularly used for launching ddos attacks since their combined bandwidth overwhelms the available bandwidth of most target systems. malicious users can take control of the visitors of social sites by remotely operating their browsers.
• Explains how the proposed design of advanced p2p botnet is harder to be shut down or monitor — it uses strong cryptography to defend the communication channel and promises integrity of the botmaster's commands.
• Explains that remote control behavior of bots could be detected by recognizing system call invocation which uses infected parameters. spammers frequently include random, valid urls to increase the apparent authenticity of emails.
• Explains that botnets have become the necessary infrastructure used by cybercriminals and nation states for launching every type of cyber attack.
• Explains binbin wang, zhitang li, hao tu, and jie ma. measuring peer-to-peer botnets using control flow stability.