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A Mitigation Technique For Internet Security Threat of Toolkits Attack
Francisca Nonyelum Ogwueleka, Edward Onyebueke Agu
Pages - 225 - 237     |    Revised - 31-08-2015     |    Published - 30-09-2015
Volume - 9   Issue - 5    |    Publication Date - September / October 2015  Table of Contents
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KEYWORDS
Toolkits, Mitigation, Zeus, Botmaster, Cryptosytem, Botnets.
ABSTRACT
The development of attack toolkits conforms that cybercrime is driven primarily by financial motivations as noted from the significant profits made by both the developers and buyers. In this paper, an enhanced hybrid attack toolkit mitigation model was designed to tackle the economy of the attack toolkits using different techniques to discredit it. The mitigation looked into Zeus, a common and the most frequently used attack toolkit to discover the hidden information used by the attackers to launch attacks. This information helped in creating honey toolkits, honeybot and honeytokens. Honeybots are used to submit honeytoken to botmasters, who sells to the internet black market. Both the botmasters, his mules and buyers attempts to steal huge amount of money using the stolen credentials which includes both real and honeytokens and will be detected by an attack detector which sends an alert on any transaction involving the honeytokens. A reconfirmation process which is secured using enhanced RC6 cryptosystem is enacted. The reconfirmation message in plain text is securely encrypted into cipher text and transmitted from the bank to the legitimate account owner and vise visa. The result of the crypto analysis carried out on the encrypted text using RC6 encryption algorithm showed that the cipher text is not transparent.
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Professor Francisca Nonyelum Ogwueleka
Faculty of Pure and Applied Science, Computer Science Department, Federal University Wukari, - Nigeria
Mr. Edward Onyebueke Agu
Federal University Wukari - Nigeria
aguedward@fuwukari.edu.ng


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