Análisis y detección de vulnerabilidades tipo botnets, en la Escuela Politécnica Nacional, utilizando herramientas de software libre.

Abstract

Botnets represent one of the main threats that affect organizations, companies, educational institutions and users. Through them, cybercriminals manage to compromise devices without the consent of their owners, in order to use them to launch different types of attacks, such as denial of service, sending spam, identity theft, among others. The purpose of this degree project is to carry out the analysis and detection of botnet-type vulnerabilities. As well as the study of botnets and their characteristics, existing detection techniques and the search for free software tools to detect this type of vulnerability. Finally, we proceed to the creation of a testing environment applied to a case study in an educational institution in Ecuador where the events that occurred and the determination of vulnerability are analyzed.