It is without a doubt that botnets pose a growing threat to the Internet, with DDoS attacks of
any kind carried out by botnets to be on the rise. Nowadays, botmasters rely on advanced …

While various covert botnets were proposed in the past, they still lack complete
anonymization for their servers/botmasters or suffer from slow communication between the …

This book provides solid, state-of-the-art contributions from both scientists and practitioners
working on botnet detection and analysis, including botnet economics. It presents original …

VoIP services, in general, and session initiation protocol (SIP) ones, in particular, continue to
grow at a fast pace and have already become a key component of next-generation networks …

Botnet armies constitute a major and continuous threat to the Internet. Their number,
diversity, and power grows with each passing day, and the last years we are witnessing their …

Until now hiding methods in network steganography have been described in arbitrary ways,
making them difficult to compare. For instance, some publications describe classical channel …

While various covert botnets were proposed in the past, they still lack complete
anonymization for their servers/botmasters or suffer from slow communication between the …

This chapter discusses how information hiding and steganography techniques can be used
to make botnets stealthier and more dangerous. It focuses on techniques that can be used …

This chapter focuses on four blockchain-based Command-and-Control (C&C) mechanisms:
ZombieCoin, Floating C&C Server, ChainChannels, and Unblockable Chains. It presents …

This chapter focuses on the emerging and predominant threat of botnets. The botnet
formation starts by recruiting as many vulnerable machines as possible to become part of a …