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HotBots'07 Proceedings of the first conference on First Workshop on Hot Topics in Understanding Botnets
A case study of the rustock rootkit and spam bot
HotBots'07 Proceedings of the first conference on First Workshop on Hot Topics in Understanding Botnets
Your botnet is my botnet: analysis of a botnet takeover
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Insights from the inside: a view of botnet management from infiltration
LEET'10 Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX conference on Large-scale exploits and emergent threats: botnets, spyware, worms, and more
A case study in ethical decision making regarding remote mitigation of botnets
FC'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Financial cryptograpy and data security
Ethical dilemmas in take-down research
FC'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security
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Computer criminals regularly construct large distributed attack networks comprised of many thousands of compromised computers around the globe. Once constituted, these attack networks are used to perform computer crimes, creating yet other sets of victims of secondary computer crimes, such as denial of service attacks, spam delivery, theft of personal and financial information for performing fraud, exfiltration of proprietary information for competitive advantage (industrial espionage), etc. The arms race between criminal actors who create and operate botnets and the computer security industry and research community who are actively trying to take these botnets down is escalating in aggressiveness. As the sophistication level of botnet engineering and operations increases, so does the demand on reverse engineering, understanding weaknesses in design that can be exploited on the defensive (or counter-offensive) side, and the possibility that actions to take down or eradicate the botnet may cause unintended consequences.