Understanding and Mitigating Botnet Threats

A botnet is a generic term used to describe a network of machines infected and controlled remotely without their rightful owners' knowledge. The current generation of bots (i.e. Storm Botnet) leverages fairly complex command and control (C&C) systems using existing Peer-to-Peer (P2P) overlay network structures. Thus, chasing down botnet C&C structures has become a futile exercise. A combined effort of theoretical study, simulation and experimentation will certainly provide us with important knowledge on botnet C&C systems, their performance and evolution as well as realistic insight of current threats. As the result, the main objective of our project is to develop effective strategies to detect and dismantle botnets.

Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Jose M. Fernandez

Student:

Quang Vinh Ta

Partner:

GOSECURE Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Polytechnique Montréal