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View article: Obsolete Ransomware: A Comprehensive Study of the Continued Threat to Users
Obsolete Ransomware: A Comprehensive Study of the Continued Threat to Users Open
There are many variants of different malware (malicious software) like trojans, adware, keylogger, worms, and others, but ransomware is the most catastrophic among them.Ransomware is the type that encrypts the user file system and seeks co…
View article: Kelihos Botnet: A Never-Ending Saga
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This paper investigates the recent behavior of the Kelihos botnet, a spam-sending botnet that accounts for many millions of emails sent each day. The paper demonstrates how a team of students are able to perform a longitudinal malware stud…
View article: An Accidental Discovery of IoT Botnets and a Method for Investigating Them With a Custom Lua Dissector
An Accidental Discovery of IoT Botnets and a Method for Investigating Them With a Custom Lua Dissector Open
This paper presents a case study that occurred while observing peer-to-peer network communications on a botnet monitoring station and shares how tools were developed to discover what ultimately was identified as Mirai and many related IoT …