D-LNBot: A Scalable, Cost-Free and Covert Hybrid Botnet on Bitcoin's Lightning Network

A Kurt, E Erdin, K Akkaya, S Uluagac… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While various covert botnets were proposed in the past, they still lack complete
anonymization for their servers/botmasters or suffer from slow communication between the …

LNBot: a covert hybrid botnet on bitcoin lightning network for fun and profit

A Kurt, E Erdin, M Cebe, K Akkaya… - … Security–ESORICS 2020 …, 2020 - Springer
While various covert botnets were proposed in the past, they still lack complete
anonymization for their servers/botmasters or suffer from slow communication between the …

One IOTA of Countless Legions: A Next Generation botnet Premises Design Substrated on Blockchain and Internet of Things

H Gao, L Li, H Lei, N Tian, H Lin… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although botnet had been at the top of the list of main threats to the cyber world for an
extended period of time, its harmfulness has been constrained nowadays due to the …

[HTML][HTML] BlockchainBot: A novel botnet infrastructure enhanced by blockchain technology and IoT

H Gao, L Li, X Chang, J Wan, J Li, J Du, X Zhang - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Although the traditional P2P botnet has significant resilience against termination, its
dependence on neighbor lists (NL) has left it vulnerable to infiltration and destruction. In …

Leveraging bitcoin testnet for bidirectional botnet command and control systems

F Franzoni, I Abellan, V Daza - International Conference on Financial …, 2020 - Springer
Over the past twenty years, the number of devices connected to the Internet grew
exponentially. Botnets benefited from this rise to increase their size and the magnitude of …

[HTML][HTML] DUSTBot: A duplex and stealthy P2P-based botnet in the Bitcoin network

Y Zhong, A Zhou, L Zhang, F Jing, Z Zuo - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
As the root cause of illegal cyber activities, botnets are evolving continuously over the last
two decades. Current researches on botnet command and control mechanism based on …

ZombieCoin3. 0: On the looming of a novel botnet fortified by distributed ledger technology and Internet of Things

H Gao, L Li, H Lin, X Chang, J Wan… - 2021 IEEE 23rd Int …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
P2P Botnet is famous for the resilience against termination. However, its dependence on
Neighbor List (NL) makes it susceptible to infiltration and poison, also leading to a dearth of …

ZombieCoin 2.0: managing next-generation botnets using Bitcoin

ST Ali, P McCorry, PHJ Lee, F Hao - International Journal of Information …, 2018 - Springer
Botnets are the preeminent source of online crime and arguably one of the greatest threats
to the Internet infrastructure. In this paper, we present ZombieCoin, a botnet command-and …

Zombiecoin: Powering next-generation botnets with bitcoin

ST Ali, P McCorry, PHJ Lee, F Hao - … and Wearable, San Juan, Puerto Rico …, 2015 - Springer
Botnets are the preeminent source of online crime and arguably the greatest threat to the
Internet infrastructure. In this paper, we present ZombieCoin, a botnet command-and-control …

Assessing the threat of blockchain-based botnets

L Böck, N Alexopoulos, E Saracoglu… - … on Electronic Crime …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time and time again the security community has faced novel threats that were previously
never analyzed, sometimes with catastrophic results. To avoid this, proactive analysis of …