Socellbot: A new botnet design to infect smartphones via online social networking

• Published in: 2012 25th IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE) pp. 1 - 5
• Main Authors: Faghani, M. R., Uyen Trang Nguyen
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.04.2012
• Subjects: cellular botnet; Command and control systems; Malware; mobile botnet; Mobile communication; Network security; online social networking; Simulation; Smart phones; Social network services; Topology

Given the popularity of both smartphones and online social networking, it is only a matter of time before attackers exploit both to launch new types of attacks. In this paper, we propose a new cellular botnet named SoCellBot that exploits online social networks (OSNs) to recruit bots and uses OSN me...