Botnets, which are networks formed by malware-compromised machines, have become a serious threat to the Internet. Such networks have been created to conduct large-scale …
The Mirai botnet, composed primarily of embedded and IoT devices, took the Internet by storm in late 2016 when it overwhelmed several high-profile targets with massive distributed …
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The Internet of Things (IoT) introduces an unprece-dented diversity and ubiquity to networked computing. It also introduces new attack surfaces that are a boon to attackers …
Our current defenses against IoT malware may not be adequate to remediate an IoT malware attack similar to the Mirai botnet. This work seeks to investigate this matter by …
The use of bot malware and botnets as a tool to facilitate other malicious cyber activities (eg distributed denial of service attacks, dissemination of malware and spam, and click fraud) …
Botnets represent one of the most serious cybersecurity threats faced by organizations today. Botnets have been used as the main vector in carrying many cyber crimes reported in …
Botnets are now the key platform for many Internet attacks, such as spam, distributed denial- of-service (DDoS), identity theft, and phishing. Most of the current botnet detection …
Botnets, networks of malware-infected machines that are controlled by an adversary, are the root cause of a large number of security problems on the Internet. A particularly …
Network traffic monitoring and analysis-related research has struggled to scale for massive amounts of data in real time. Some of the vertical scaling solutions provide good …