Botnets: Lifecycle and Taxonomy

摘要: The new threat of the Internet, but little known to 'general public' is constituted by botnets. Botnets are networks infected computers, which headed a pirate called also 'Attacker' or 'Master'. botnets nowadays mainly responsible for large-scale coordinated attacks. attacker can ask computers 'Agents' 'Zombies' perform all sorts tasks him, like sending spam, performing DDoS attacks, phishing campaigns, delivering malware, leasing selling their other fraudsters anywhere. In this paper we present classification that reflects life cycle and current resilience techniques botnets, distinguishing propagation, injection, control attack phases. Then study effectiveness adopted taxonomy applying it existing main characteristics. We conclude upcoming steps in our research.