Overcoming reputation and proof-of-work systems in botnets

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Overcoming reputation and proof-of-work systems in botnets
Botnet	Storm
Malware
Botnet/malware group
Exploit kits
Services
Feature
Distribution vector
Target
Origin
Campaign
Operation/Working group
Vulnerability
CCProtocol
Date	2010 / NSS 2010
Editor/Conference	IEEE
Link	http://eprints.qut.edu.au/35657/ eprints.qut.edu.au (eprints.qut.edu.au Archive copy)
Author	Andrew White, Alan Tickle, Andrew Clark
Type

Abstract

“ Reputation and proof-of-work systems have been outlined as methods bot masters will soon use to defend their

peer-to-peer botnets. These techniques are designed to prevent sybil attacks, such as those that led to the downfall of the Storm botnet. To evaluate the effectiveness of these techniques, a botnet that employed these techniques was simulated, and the amount of resources required to stage a successful sybil attack against it measured. While the proof-of-work system was found to increase the resources required for a successful sybil attack, the reputation system was found to lower the amount of resources required to disable the botnet.

Bibtex

 @misc{2010BFR858,
   editor = {IEEE},
   author = {Andrew White, Alan Tickle, Andrew Clark},
   title = {Overcoming reputation and proof-of-work systems in botnets},
   date = {},
   month = ,
   year = {2010},
   howpublished = {\url{http://eprints.qut.edu.au/35657/ eprints.qut.edu.au}},
 }