In recent years, Botnets have been adopted as a popular method to carry and spread many
malicious codes on the Internet. These malicious codes pave the way to execute many …

Botnets are the most common vehicle of cyber-criminal activity. They are used for spamming,
phishing, denial of service attacks, brute-force cracking, stealing private information, and …

Smart grids utilize communication technologies that make them vulnerable to cyber attacks.
Because the power grid is a critical infrastructure, it is a tempting target for sophisticated and …

Malware is pervasive in networks, and poses a critical threat to network security. However,
we have very limited understanding of malware behavior in networks to date. In this paper …

In this paper, we present Nyx, the first system to both effectively mitigate modern Distributed
Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks regardless of the amount of traffic under adversarial control …

Botnets are groups of compromised computers that botmasters (botherders) use to launch
attacks over the Internet. To avoid detection, botnets use DNS fast flux to change the …

Botnets have become one of the main threats to cyberspace security currently. More and
more bots utilize the domain generation algorithm (DGA) to generate malicious domain …

With the advent of Internet-of-Things (IoT) age, IoT-based distributed denial-of-service
(DDoS) attacks have become the mainstream of DDoS attacks. This paper is devoted to …

Port scanning is the de-facto method to enumerate active hosts and potentially exploitable
services on the Internet. Over the last years, several studies have quantified the ecosystem …

Identifying information sources plays a significant role in network science and engineering.
However, existing source identification approaches generally focus on static networks …