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ZombieCoin: Powering Next-Generation Botnets with Bitcoin
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2015
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Botnets are the preeminent source of online crime and arguably the greatest threat to the Internet infrastructure. In this paper, we present ZombieCoin, a botnet command-and-control (C&C) mechanism that runs on the Bitcoin network. ZombieCoin offers considerable advantages over existing C&C techniques, most notably the fact that Bitcoin is designed to resist the very regulatory processes currently used to combat botnets. We believe this is a desirable avenue botmasters may explore in the near
doi:10.1007/978-3-662-48051-9_3
fatcat:oqxbppacnvgsnbw5onfrr32wpa