The growing model of Botnets

Nowadays Botnets have been identified as one of the most serious threats to network security, especially the peer-to-peer (P2P)based Botnets. Security experts destroy the botnets by target-attacking the weaknesses of high degree nodes or high betweens edges of the botnets. To make this work, the security experts need to know the features of the topology of botnets. But, topics such as how botnets´ topology is formed and what the features of botnets´ topology are are rarely studied up to now. Inspired by the method of complex network, we propose the growing model of botnets to try to resolve these questions. As far as we know, the growing model of Botnets has not been studied. Here, we focuse on the network metrics of Botnets, present a growing model of Botnets and discusse the performance of Botnets when their topology construction parameters change.