Botnets have become an increasing security concern in today’s Internet. Thus far the mitigation to botnet attacks is a never ending arms race focusing on technical approaches. In this paper, we model botnet-related cybercrimes as a result of profit-maximizing decision-making from the perspectives of both botnet masters and renters/attackers. From this economic model, we can understand the effec...

Botnets are networks of computers infected with malicious programs that allow cybercriminals/botnet herders to control the infected machines remotely without the user’s knowledge. In many cases, botnet herders are motivated by economic incentives and try to significantly profit from illegal botnet activity while causing significant economic damage to society. To analyze the economic aspects of ...

Botnets have become an increasing security concern in today’s Internet. Since current technological defenses against botnets have failed to produce results, it has become necessary to think about different strategies. Given that money is perhaps the single determining force driving the growth in botnet attacks, we propose an interesting economic approach to take away the root cause of botnet, i...

Botnets, networks of compromised machines that can be remotely controlled by an attacker, are one of the most common attack platforms nowadays. They can, for example, be used to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, steal sensitive information, or send spam emails. A longterm measurement study of botnet activities is useful as a basis for further research on global botnet mitigat...

We propose a set of metrics for efficient botnet detection. The proposed metrics captures the unique group behavior that is inherent in bot communications. Our premise for proposing group behavior metrics for botnet detection is that, group behavior observed in botnets are unique and this unique group behavior property is inherent in the botnet architecture. The proposed group behavior metrics ...

In the field of internet security botnet is becoming the significant threat as more number of users are connected to internet. Botnet which is a collection of infected computers so called (bots) are becoming the major threat to internet community. The difference between a malware and botnet is that bot is remotely controlled by a C&C server which are under the control of a botmaster. Here in th...

Zhen Li1 and Qi Liao2 1Department of Economics and Management, Albion College, Albion, Michigan, USA 2Department of Computer Science, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, USA ABSTRACT Economics play an increasingly important role in fighting cyber crimes. While the arms race against botnet problems has achieved limited success, we propose an approach attacking botnets through ...

Botnet are identified as one of most emerging threats due to Cybercriminals work diligently to make most of the part of the users’ network of computers as their target. In conjunction with that, many researchers has conduct a lot of study regarding on the botnets and ways to detect botnet in network traffic. Most of them only used the feature inside the system without mentioning the feature inf...

In recent years, botnet has become one of the most serious security threats to Internet. With the rapid development of mobile network and the popularity of smartphones, botnet began to spread to mobile platform. In order to counter mobile botnet, it is meaningful to study its constructive mechanism and reproduce it. In the past studies, researchers have designed several kinds of mobile botnet m...