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Botnet Detection Techniques: A Review

Botnets are emerging as a severe threat to the internet and consequently led to rising concerns about the security of network embedded devices. Botnets are networks formed as a string of various machines infected with malwares that are controlled by an antagonist and coordinated together to maintain a distributed platform for performing certain illicit activities on a large scale such as launching DDOS, Spamming etc. In recent years, botnets have been the subject of raising interest and great scientific efforts have been devoted to provide effective and efficient detection of botnets. This paper comprises of a comprehensive overview of existing botnet detection methods and their comparative analysis by outlining their certain characteristics which will help to analyze the current state of work in this field.