Anatomy of a Botnet: How the Arbor Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT) Discovers, Analyzes and Mitigates DDoS Attacks

Abstract

One of the Internet’s great strengths is also one of its weaknesses: with no central governing body, the Internet is a wide-open environment that has allowed a large criminal element to thrive. For evidence, look no further than the escalating growth of botnets and their role in perpetrating a wide array of crimes including identity theft, banking fraud, spam campaigns, malware distribution and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.