New facets of mobile botnet: architecture and evaluation
New facets of mobile botnet: architecture and evaluation
M. Anagnostopoulos,G. Kambourakis,S. Gritzalis
2016 · DOI: 10.1007/s10207-015-0310-0
International Journal of Information Security · 65 Citations
TLDR
This work introduces two novel botnet architectures that consist only of mobile devices and evaluates both their impact in terms of DNS amplification and TCP flooding attacks, and their cost pertaining to the maintenance of the C&C channel.