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		<title>Phoenix Exploit’s Kit: From the mythology to a criminal business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jorge Mieres, our friend from Malware Intelligence group has published a new paper on Phoenix exploits. There has been a raise in the Zeus exploit toolkits and a great involvement of the underground from various countries around the world. It would be best for us to not name any specific country, as there are many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://botnet.kaffenews.com/?p=252</link>
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		<title>Botnet Judo: Fighting Spams with itself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NOTE: This website is not created to list new stuff alone. This is a knowledge sharing portal. Hence, we would have old but ACTIVE/WORKING links and papers too. Kindly, do not comment or email about the same. Thank you. Botnet Judo: Fighting Spam with Itself Author(s): Andreas Pitsillidis,    Kirill Levchenko, Geoffrey M. Voelker,    [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://botnet.kaffenews.com/?p=249</link>
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		<title>BotSniffer: Detecting Botnet Command and Control Channels in Network Traffic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is another paper that we found when going through other stuff &#8220;BotSniffer: Detecting Botnet Command and Control Channels in Network Traffic&#8221;, which can be found here: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/bertino/426Fall2009/17_botsniffer_detecting_botnet.pdf Abstract from the paper: Botnets are now recognized as one of the most serious security threats. In contrast to previous malware, botnets have the characteristic of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://botnet.kaffenews.com/?p=242</link>
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		<title>A Multifaceted Approach to Understanding the Botnet Phenomenon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a great paper that we came across last week, when we were trying to understand the botnet phenomenon for implementing across the multi-stage botnet analysis tool that is in the process of development. ABSTRACT The academic community has long acknowledged the existence of malicious botnets, however to date, very little is known about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://botnet.kaffenews.com/?p=238</link>
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		<title>Botnet Hosed &#8211; Coming Soon!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Botnet Hosed is a new project Botnet Analytics web portal. We are planning to work on online-based client-side botnet detection. More about the working will be releasing with the website itself. We are in collaboration with ShadowServer for this project and many other projects under Botnet Analytics. We are hoping for more collaborations to expand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://botnet.kaffenews.com/?p=235</link>
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		<title>Automating Analysis of Large-Scale Botnet Probing Events</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When looking for automating botnet analysis I found this great paper &#8220;Automating Analysis of Large-Scale Botnet Probing Events&#8221;. This paper is from ASIACCS&#8217;09 March 10-12, 2009, Sydney, NSW, Australia.  You can download it from : http://www.icir.org/vern/papers/probing-analy.ccs09.pdf Abstract [Copied and pasted from the above link]: Botnets dominate today&#8217;s attack landscape. In this work we investigate ways [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://botnet.kaffenews.com/?p=232</link>
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		<title>Botnet Monitor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello guys, Sorry for the delay in postings. We have been working on designing, developing and deploying tools that would help you secure yourself on a daily basis. To continue with our efforts, our next tool for the release April/May 2010 is Botnet Monitor. The features of the tool, including working, architecture and user manual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://botnet.kaffenews.com/?p=230</link>
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		<title>Busting Botnet-Herders &#8211; Behind the Scenes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have been observing that &#8220;busting botnet-herders&#8221; is really happening these days starting with the past few incidents, although we need to think about the big picture &#38; behind the scenes. These are the questions that arise after we see such incidents: Are these guys [who get arrested] the real guys behind the scene? Or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://botnet.kaffenews.com/?p=225</link>
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		<title>Commercializing Botnets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The past few years has been a big boom in the botnet world. Botnet herders [a.k.a. the creators of botnet] are commercializing botnets by showing how powerful their botnets are than existing botnets. Some of them are good at one thing, while certain others are good at other stuff. Some of them have been listed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://botnet.kaffenews.com/?p=218</link>
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		<title>Your Botnet is My Botnet: Analysis of a Botnet Takeover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The paper described about how one botnet can control the hosts hosed by other botnets.  This is a really nice paper from the following author&#8217;s: Brett Stone-Gross, Marco Cova, Lorenzo Cavallaro, Bob Gilbert, Martin Szydlowski, Richard Kemmerer, Christopher Kruegel, and Giovanni Vigna Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara {bstone,marco,sullivan,rgilbert,msz,kemm,chris,vigna}@cs.ucsb.edu It is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://botnet.kaffenews.com/?p=215</link>
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