Malicious Bots: An Inside Look Into the Cyber-Criminal Underground of the Internet

ISBN-13: 9780367387037 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 168 str.

Ken Dunham; Jim Melnick

Opis

Originally designed to sabotage or annihilate websites, computerized "bots" are increasingly being used in mass spamming events, fraud, extortion, identity theft, and software theft. Focusing on the malicious use of bots and bot herder means and motivations, this volume provides a much needed resource for understanding the scope, sophistication, and criminal uses of bots and how to more proactively protect against them. Accessibly written, but with sufficient technical detail, the book introduces botnet threats and how they function and examines the top bot attacks against financial and government networks over the last four years to reveal the who, how, and why behind them.

Spis treści

  Introduction to Bots

 

Thr34t Security Krew and the TK Worm

 

Demonstration: How a Hacker Launches a Botnet Attack

 

Introduction to the Use of Botnets in Criminal Activity

 

Botnets and the eCrime Cycle: The iSIGHT Partners’ Approach

 

Technical Introduction to Bots

 

Mitigation

Glossary

 

Bibliography

O autorze

Dunham, Ken; Melnick, Jim