DUSTBot: A duplex and stealthy P2P-based botnet in the Bitcoin network.

As the root cause of illegal cyber activities, botnets are evolving continuously over the last two decades. Current researches on botnet command and control mechanism based on blockchain network suffer from high economic cost, single point of failure, and limited scalability. In this paper, we prese...

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Main Authors: Yi Zhong, Anmin Zhou, Lei Zhang, Fan Jing, Zheng Zuo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226594