A review on taxonomy of botnet detection

Abstract

Malicious software, `malware`, has acquired an important position in modern high-tech life. There are several malware like virus, worms, trojan horses, root kit forms regularly attacking the networks particularly on internet to steal the information. Apart from these threats botnet is one of the widespread and serious threats, which occurs commonly in today's cyber attacks. The botnet detection has been a major research topic in recent years. This paper clarifies about botnet phenomenon, some of the botnet detection and overview of an extensible fuzzy pattern recognition-based filtering algorithm for botnet detection.