Peer-to-peer botnets are a relatively new yet rapidly growing Internet threat. In the year since its introduction in January 2007, the Storm Worm peer-to-peer botnet has become the largest botnet on the Internet. Unlike previous botnets operating ov
Botnets, i.e., networks of compromised machines under a common control infrastructure, are commonly controlled by an attacker with the help of a central server: all compromised machines connect to the central server and wait for commands. However, t
Since the advent of distributed intruder tools in the late 1990s, defenders have striven to identify and take down as much of the attack network as possible, as fast as possible.This has never been an easy task, owing in large part to thewide distri
