Insight into Contemporary Dissemination Techniques of Mobile Botnet Clients (Bots)

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Insight into Contemporary Dissemination Techniques of Mobile Botnet Clients (Bots)

Original language description

Currently, smartphones and tablets offer a wide range of functionalities such as web browsing, social networking and above all using banking applications. This has resulted in constant increase in popularity of mobile devices connected to the Internet 24/7. In 2nd quarter of 2015, the Android operating system has dominated the market with an 82.8% share, which makes it the most widespread mobile operating system in the world. However, this popularity is double-edged, including both users and botnet creators. The research papers "Android Botnets on the Rise: Trends and Characteristics and How Can Botnets Cause Storms?" as well as "Understanding the Evolution and Impact of Mobile Botnets" imply urgent need for additional research into this field. Therefore, the research described by this article includes not only theoretical study into the ways of botnet command delivering and essential botnet knowledge based on published research but also practical investigation into the field of ways of infecting smartphones and tablets with botnet clients (bots). Special tools have been developed for performing certain malicious actions enabling real testing of safety mechanisms of the Google Play. These tools have been also used in combination with other useful techniques such as social engineering and deceitful actions trying to get users to unintentional cooperation. Finally, some challenging results and security vulnerabilities have been raised by the research.

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

IN - Informatics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Tenth International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies

ISBN

978-1-61208-493-0

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Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

117-123

Publisher name

IARIA XPS Press

Place of publication

Wilmington

Event location

Nice

Event date

Jul 24, 2016

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

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