An efficient false alarm reduction approach in HTTP-based botnet detection

In recent years, bots and botnets have become one of the most dangerous infrastructure to carry out nearly every type of cyber-attack. Their dynamic and flexible nature along with sophisticated mechanisms makes them difficult to detect. One of the latest generations of botnet, called HTTP-based, uses the standard HTTP protocol to impersonate normal web traffic and bypass the current network security systems (e.g. firewalls). Besides, HTTP...