Ok, maybe this is some days old. The papers for HotBots ‘07 (the First Workshop on Hot Topics in Understanding Botnets) have been made available on their website.
Here you can find download links for several of the most interesting-looking papers:
- Peer-to-Peer Botnets: Overview and Case Study
- An Advanced Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Botnet
- A Distributed Content Independent Method for Spam Detection
- The Ghost in the Browser: Analysis of Web-based Malware
- My Botnet Is Bigger Than Yours (Maybe, Better Than Yours): Why Size Estimates Remain Challenging Toward Botnet Mesocosms
- Wide-Scale Botnet Detection and Characterization
- Identify Bot Contaminated Hosts by IRC Nickname Evaluation
- AS-Based Accountability as a Cost-Effective DDoS Defense
Some other blogs commented about it first: TaoSecurity, Noticias de Seguridad
Dear Alfredo Reino,
I’m very thanks for this information. Really I’m interested with Bot nets. This is the new threats and most of current Information Security products don’t give it attention.
Thanks,
Ayman M. Galal
Do you have any info on the 400k strong kraken botnet? If not, do you know where I can find detailed info on this botnet?
Thanks,
Matt