The botnet is considered as a critical issue of the Internet due to its fast growing mechanism and affect. Recently, Botnets have utilized the DNS and query DNS server just like any legitimate hosts. In this case, it is difficult to distinguish between the legitimate DNS traffic and illegitimate DNS...

Domain Name System (DNS) traffic has become a rich source of information from a security perspective. However, the volume of DNS traffic has been skyrocketing, such that security analyzers experience difficulties in collecting, retrieving, and analyzing the DNS traffic in response to modern Internet...

Botnets can simultaneously control millions of Internet-connected devices to launch damaging cyber-attacks that pose significant threats to the Internet. In a botnet, bot-masters communicate with the command and control server using various communication protocols. One of the widely used communicati...

Botnets are one of the leading threats to network security nowadays and are used to conduct a wide variety of malicious activities, including information theft, phishing, spam mail distribution, and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Among the various forms of botnet, DGA-based botnets, w...

Cybercrimes are evolving on a regular basis and as such these crimes are becoming a greater threat day by day. Earlier these threats were very general and unorganized. In the last decade, these attacks have become highly sophisticated in nature. This higher level of coordination is possible mainly d...

Botnets have become the main vehicle to conduct online crimes such as DDoS, spam, phishing and identity theft. Even though numerous efforts have been directed towards detection of botnets, evolving evasion techniques easily thwart detection. Moreover, existing approaches can be overwhelmed by the la...

Botnet is a network of infected workstations that are remotely managed by BotMaster via the command and control (C&C) server. Botnets pose a serious threat to network security since they are the source of a variety of malicious behaviors such as information theft, phishing, and Distributed Denial of...

Botnet is a network of infected workstations that are remotely managed by BotMaster via the command and control (C&C) server. Botnets pose a serious threat to network security since they are the source of a variety of malicious behaviors such as information theft, phishing, and Distributed Denial of...