Ransomware threat success factors, taxonomy, and countermeasures: A survey and research directions

BAS Al-Rimy, MA Maarof, SZM Shaid - Computers & Security, 2018 - Elsevier
Ransomware is a malware category that exploits security mechanisms such as cryptography
in order to hijack user files and related resources and demands money in exchange for the …

Issues and challenges in DNS based botnet detection: A survey

M Singh, M Singh, S Kaur - Computers & Security, 2019 - Elsevier
Cybercrimes are evolving on a regular basis and as such these crimes are becoming a
greater threat day by day. Earlier these threats were very general and unorganized. In the …

Forensics and deep learning mechanisms for botnets in internet of things: A survey of challenges and solutions

N Koroniotis, N Moustafa, E Sitnikova - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The constant miniaturization of hardware and an increase in power efficiency, have made
possible the integration of intelligence into ordinary devices. This trend of augmenting so …

Resident evil: Understanding residential ip proxy as a dark service

X Mi, X Feng, X Liao, B Liu, XF Wang… - … IEEE symposium on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An emerging Internet business is residential proxy (RESIP) as a service, in which a provider
utilizes the hosts within residential networks (in contrast to those running in a datacenter) to …

Malicious domain name detection based on extreme machine learning

Y Shi, G Chen, J Li - Neural Processing Letters, 2018 - Springer
Malicious domain detection is one of the most effective approaches applied in detecting
Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), the most sophisticated and stealthy threat to modern …

A fully scalable big data framework for Botnet detection based on network traffic analysis

SH Mousavi, M Khansari, R Rahmani - Information Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Many traditional Botnet detection methods have trouble scaling up to meet the needs of multi-
Gbps networks. This scalability challenge is not just limited to bottlenecks in the detection …

From zeus to zitmo: Trends in banking malware

N Etaher, GRS Weir, M Alazab - 2015 IEEE Trustcom …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the crimeware world, financial botnets are a global threat to banking organizations. Such
malware purposely performs financial fraud and steals critical information from clients' …

Detecting bot-infected machines using DNS fingerprinting

M Singh, M Singh, S Kaur - Digital investigation, 2019 - Elsevier
The never-ending menace of botnet is causing many serious problems on the Internet.
Although there are significant efforts on detecting botnet at the global level which rely …

[PDF][PDF] A signature-based botnet (emotet) detection mechanism

F Suthar, N Patel, S Khanna - Int. J. Eng. Trends Technol, 2022 - researchgate.net
The Internet has become an essential part of life, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic.
The increasing use of technology brings new challenges. Cyber security has emerged as a …

[PDF][PDF] Designing an effective network forensic framework for the investigation of botnets in the Internet of Things

N Koroniotis - 2020 - unsworks.unsw.edu.au
In recent times, the world has come to rely greatly on the Internet and the services that it
provides. As such, it should come as no surprise that innovations that harness the …