Malicious domains are one of the major resources required for adversaries to run attacks
over the Internet. Due to the important role of the Domain Name System (DNS), extensive …

Botnet is a thorny and a grave problem of today's Internet, resulting in economic damage for
organizations and individuals. Botnet is a group of compromised hosts running malicious …

Many botnet detection systems employ a blacklist of known command and control (C&C)
domains to detect bots and block their traffic. Similar to signature-based virus detection, such …

As more and more Internet-based attacks arise, organizations are responding by deploying
an assortment of security products that generate situational intelligence in the form of logs …

Modern botnets rely on domain-generation algorithms (DGAs) to build resilient command-
and-control infrastructures. Given the prevalence of this mechanism, recent work has …

FANCI is a novel system for detecting infections with domain generation algorithm (DGA)
based malware by monitoring non-existent domain (NXD) responses in DNS traffic. It relies …

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 …

Botnets are one of the leading threats to network security nowadays and are used to conduct
a wide variety of malicious activities, including information theft, phishing, spam mail …

Of all current threats to cybersecurity, botnets are at the top of the list. In consequence,
interest in this problem is increasing rapidly among the research community and the number …

Organizations, especially business enterprises, collect and store event logs generated by
hardware devices and software applications in their networks. For example, firewalls log …