Toronto
Networking Seminar
Covertly
Tracking a Large Collection of Botnets
Fabian
Monrose
Department of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University
Date:
Friday, December 1, 3pm
Location: BA1170 (Bahen Center)
Abstract:
While
the academic community has long acknowledged the existence of botnets,
relatively little is known about the behavior of these distributed
platforms. For instance, botnet prevalence on the Internet remains
mostly a mystery. In this talk, I'll present our efforts to clear the
fog surrounding botnets by constructing a multifaceted and distributed
measurement platform. In particular, our approach makes use of several
techniques to covertly track botnets from both an insider's view and
from a global perspective. During the course of over 3 months, we
covertly tracked well over 100 botnets, and discovered some fairly
intriguing findings (at least to us) regarding the botnet phenomenon.
Time permitting, I will also touch on several challenges and
limitations of current practices to curtail the botnet problem.
This is joint work with Moheeb Rajab, Jay Zarfoss and Andreas Terzis.
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