The ongoing rapid expansion of the Word Wide Web (WWW) greatly increases the
information of effective transmission from heterogeneous individuals to various systems …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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) …

Recent Botnets such as Conficker, Kraken and Torpig have used DNS based" domain
fluxing" for command-and-control, where each Bot queries for existence of a series of …