Botnets allow malefactors manage millions of infected computers simultaneously and provide large-scale successful attacks. The paper suggests an approach for multi-agent simulation of botnets and botnet protection mechanisms. The main contribution of the paper is an improved simulation environment for agent based simulation of botnets and experimentation with this environment for analysis of di...

Botnets are recognized as one of the most dangerous threats to the Internet infrastructure. They are used for malicious activities such as launching distributed denial of service attacks, sending spam, and leaking personal information. Existing botnet detection methods produce a number of good ideas, but they are far from complete yet, since most of them cannot detect botnets in an early stage ...

Botnets are a serious threat to internet security. Botnets consist of networked collections of compromised machines called robots or ‘bots’ for short. Bots are also called ‘zombies,’ and botnets are also called ‘zombie armies.’ Bots are controlled by nodes called ‘botmasters’ or ‘botherders.’ Bots are infected with malicious code that performs work on behalf of the botmaster or botherder. Botne...

Botnets are a serious threat to internet security. Botnets consist of networked collections of compromised machines called robots or ‘bots’ for short. Bots are also called ‘zombies,’ and botnets are also called ‘zombie armies.’ Bots are controlled by nodes called ‘botmasters’ or ‘botherders.’ Bots are infected with malicious code that performs work on behalf of the botmaster or botherder. Botne...

Botnets are a serious threat to internet security. Botnets consist of networked collections of compromised machines called robots or ‘bots’ for short. Bots are also called ‘zombies,’ and botnets are also called ‘zombie armies.’ Bots are controlled by nodes called ‘botmasters’ or ‘botherders.’ Bots are infected with malicious code that performs work on behalf of the botmaster or botherder. Botne...

Botnets are recognized as one of the most dangerous threats to the Internet infrastructure. They are used for malicious activities such as launching distributed denial of service attacks, sending spam, and leaking personal information. Existing botnet detection methods produce a number of good ideas, but they are far from complete yet, since most of them cannot detect botnets in an early stage ...

Fast growth of Internet has brought some security concerns. One of these security concerns is Botnet. Bot and Botnets are new sophisticated kind of malware that is equipped with advanced features and have variety of applications. This paper reviews the current botnet detection frameworks and their advantages and drawbacks. To address the drawbacks we propose a conceptual holistic Botnet Detecti...

Botnets are one of the most serious and widespread cyber threats. Today botnets have been facilitating many cybercrimes, especially financial, top secret thefts. Botnets can be available for lease in the market and are utilized by the cybercriminals to launch massive attacks like DDoS, click fraud, phishing attacks etc., Several large institutions, hospitals, banks, government organizations and...

In recent years, with the rapid growth of the Internet applications and services, botnet becomes one of the most severe threats on the Internet. Because the botnets can be automatically evolved as different localized versions in a short period of time, how to find an effective and efficient approach to detect and notify the Botnet attack becomes an important and interesting issue. To cope with ...

Botnets are known to be one of the most serious Internet security threats. In this survey, we review botnet architectures and their controlling mechanisms. Botnet infection behavior is explained. Then, known botnet models are outlined to study botnet design. Furthermore, Fast-Flux Service Networks (FFSN) are discussed in great details as they play an important role in facilitating botnet traffi...