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Social platforms such as Twitter are under siege from a multitude of fraudulent users. In response, social bot detection tasks have been developed to identify such fake users. Due to the structure of social networks, the majority of methods…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Lanjun Wang , Xinran Qiao , Yanwei Xie , Weizhi Nie , Yongdong Zhang , Anan Liu

Traditional botnet attacks leverage large and distributed numbers of compromised internet-connected devices to target and overwhelm other devices with internet packets. With increasing consumer adoption of high-wattage internet-facing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Lynn Pepin , Lizhi Wang , Jiangwei Wang , Songyang Han , Pranav Pishawikar , Amir Herzberg , Peng Zhang , Fei Miao

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) botnets are becoming widely used as a low-overhead, efficient, self-maintaining, distributed alternative to the traditional client/server model across a broad range of cyberattacks. These cyberattacks can take the form of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-01 Mark Scanlon , M-Tahar Kechadi

A botnet is an army of zombified computers infected with malware and controlled by malicious actors to carry out tasks such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices are primarily targeted…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Angela Grace Famera , Raj Mani Shukla , Suman Bhunia

In the recent years, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on Internet of Things (IoT) devices have become one of the prime concerns to Internet users around the world. One of the sources of the attacks on IoT ecosystems are botnets.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Kumar Saurabh , Tanuj Kumar , Uphar Singh , O. P. Vyas , Rahamatullah Khondoker

Telegram, initially a messaging app, has evolved into a platform where users can interact with various services through programmable applications, bots. Bots provide a wide range of uses, from moderating groups, helping with online…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Taro Tsuchiya , Haoxiang Yu , Tina Marjanov , Alice Hutchings , Nicolas Christin , Alejandro Cuevas

Botnets are considered one of the most dangerous and serious security threats facing the networks and the Internet. Comparing with the other security threats, botnet members have the ability to be directed and controlled via C&C messages…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-01-15 Aymen Hasan Rashid Al Awadi , Bahari Belaton

The rapid growth of technology has led to the creation of computing networks. The applications of the Internet of Things are becoming more and more visible with the expansion and development of sensors and the use of a series of equipment…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Amirabas Kabiri Zamani , Amirahmad Chapnevis

Due to the numerous advantages of machine learning (ML) algorithms, many applications now incorporate them. However, many studies in the field of image classification have shown that MLs can be fooled by a variety of adversarial attacks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Islam Debicha , Benjamin Cochez , Tayeb Kenaza , Thibault Debatty , Jean-Michel Dricot , Wim Mees

The rapid growth of decentralized finance (DeFi) has led to the widespread use of automated agents, or bots, within blockchain ecosystems like Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, and Solana. While these bots enhance market efficiency and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Ahmed Mounsf Rafik Bendada , Abdelaziz Amara Korba , Mouhamed Amine Bouchiha , Yacine Ghamri-Doudane

The advantages of IoT in strengthening commercial, industrial, and social ecosystems have led to its widespread expansion. Nevertheless, because endpoint devices have limited computation, storage, and communication capabilities, the IoT…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Masoud Hayeri Khyavi

The Internet Threat Monitoring (ITM),is a globally scoped Internet monitoring system whose goal is to measure, detect, characterize, and track threats such as distribute denial of service(DDoS) attacks and worms. To block the monitoring…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-01-13 K. Munivara Prasad , A. Rama Mohan Reddy , M. Ganesh Karthik

Botnet attacks are a major threat to networked systems because of their ability to turn the network nodes that they compromise into additional attackers, leading to the spread of high volume attacks over long periods. The detection of such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Erol Gelenbe , Mert Nakıp

In a brave new age of global connectivity and e-commerce, interconnections via networks have heightened, creating for both individuals and organizations, a state of complete dependence upon vulnerable systems for storage and transfer of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Amit Kumar , Santosh Malhotra

Botnets are one of the online threats with the biggest presence, causing billionaire losses to global economies. Nowadays, the increasing number of devices connected to the Internet makes it necessary to analyze large amounts of network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Javier Velasco-Mata , Víctor González-Castro , Eduardo Fidalgo , Enrique Alegre

Defending against botnets has always been a cat and mouse game. Cyber-security researchers and government agencies attempt to detect and take down botnets by playing the role of the cat. In this context, a lot of work has been done towards…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis , Jan Helge Wolf , Leon Böck , Shankar Karuppayah , Max Mühlhäuser

The integration of bots in Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) fosters efficiency and automation. However, their use is also associated with predatory trading and market manipulation, and can pose threats to system integrity. It is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Thomas Niedermayer , Pietro Saggese , Bernhard Haslhofer

Enterprise networks that host valuable assets and services are popular and frequent targets of distributed network attacks. In order to cope with the ever-increasing threats, industrial and research communities develop systems and methods…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Minzhao Lyu , Hassan Habibi Gharakheili , Vijay Sivaraman

Botnet Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are now 20 years old; what has changed in that time? Their disruptive presence, their volume, distribution across the globe, and the relative ease of launching them have all been trending…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Eric Osterweil , Angelos Stavrou , Lixia Zhang

Botnets are among the most persistent cyber threats, enabling large-scale attacks such as spam, credential theft, and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS). While deep learning approaches have recently been applied to botnet detection, they…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Subhash Gurappa , Yashas Hariprasad , Sundararaj Sitharama Iyengar , Naveen Kumar Chaudhary