Abstract:

Autonomously spreading malware has been a global threat to the Internet Community ever since the existence of the Internet as a large-scale computer network. A specialization of this threat are botnets; recent trends towards commercialization of botnets made the situation even worse. This document out- lines the weaknesses of different existing approaches to catch malware – especially bots – and shows how Medium Interaction Honeypots solved these prob- lems. It evaluates the success of Medium Interac-tion Honeypots so far and additionally points out some other related work

Download Full Paper: Click here