Malware

An Analytical and Experimental Approach to Developing Botnet Counter-Measures

Project Leader(s):

Postdoctoral fellow: Dr. Carlton Davis, Computer and Software Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal

Lead faculty member: Dr. Jose Fernandez, Computer and Software Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal

Non-academic participants:

Communications Security Establishment Canada

Botnets are networks consisting of computers that are infected with malicious codes (malware) and are consequently being remotely controlled by botnet operators. Botnets pose some of the most challenging security problems owing to their ubiquitousness, their size, their complexity, and the effectiveness with which they have been used to facilitate and perpetuate a wide range of cybercrimes.