- Authors:
- Ken Dunham,
- Jim Melnick
Originally designed to sabotage or annihilate websites, computerized Bots are increasingly used in mass spamming events, fraud, extortion, identity theft, and software theft. Focusing on the malicious use of bots and bot herder means and motivations, Malicious Bots provides a much needed a resource for understanding the scope, sophistication, and criminal uses of bots and how to more proactively protect against them. Accessibly written, but with sufficient technical detail, the book introduces botnet threats and how they function and examines the top bot attacks against financial and government networks over the last four years to reveal the who, how, and why behind them.
Index Terms
- Malicious Bots: An Inside Look into the Cyber-Criminal Underground of the Internet
Recommendations
Malicious Bots Threaten Network Security
Viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and network intrusions are among the threats that security administrators worry about on a regular basis. However, there is a less familiar threat that many experts say could be just as dangerous: malicious bot software. A ...
Malicious SSL Certificate Detection: A Step Towards Advanced Persistent Threat Defence
ICFNDS '17: Proceedings of the International Conference on Future Networks and Distributed SystemsAdvanced Persistent Threat (APT) is one of the most serious types of cyber attacks, which is a new and more complex version of multistep attack. Within the APT life cycle, continuous communication between infected hosts and Command and Control (C&C) ...
Predicting Zero-day Malicious IP Addresses
SafeConfig '17: Proceedings of the 2017 Workshop on Automated Decision Making for Active Cyber DefenseBlacklisting IP addresses is an important part of enterprise security today. Malware infections and Advanced Persistent Threats can be detected when blacklisted IP addresses are contacted. It can also thwart phishing attacks by blocking suspicious ...