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ISPs and Ad Networks Against Botnet Ad Fraud

Vratonjic, Nevena  
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Manshaei, Mohammadhossein  
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Raya, Maxime
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2010
Decision And Game Theory For Security
Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security

Botnets are a serious threat on the Internet and require huge resources to be thwarted. ISPs are in the best position to fight botnets and there are a number of recently proposed initiatives that focus on how ISPs should detect and remediate bots. However, it is very expensive for ISPs to do it alone and they would probably welcome some external funding. Among others, botnets severely affect ad networks (ANs), as botnets are increasingly used for ad fraud. Thus, ANs have an economic incentive, but they are not in the best position to fight botnet ad fraud. Consequently, ANs might be willing to subsidize the ISPs to do so. We provide a game-theoretic model to study the strategic behavior of ISPs and ANs and we identify the conditions under which ANs are likely to solve the problem of botnet ad fraud by themselves and those under which the AN will subsidize the ISP to achieve this goal. Our analytical and numerical results show that the optimal strategy depends on the ad revenue loss of the ANs due to ad fraud and the number of bots participating in ad fraud.

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Type
conference paper
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-17197-0_10
Web of Science ID

WOS:000289027600010

Author(s)
Vratonjic, Nevena  
Manshaei, Mohammadhossein  
Raya, Maxime
Hubaux, Jean-Pierre  
Date Issued

2010

Publisher

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa

Published in
Decision And Game Theory For Security
ISBN of the book

978-3-642-17196-3

Series title/Series vol.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 6442

Start page

149

End page

167

Subjects

Ad Fraud

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Botnets

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ISP

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Ad Network

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Security

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Game Theory

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NCCR-MICS

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NCCR-MICS/Secu

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security

Berlin, Germany

November 22-23, 2010

Available on Infoscience
September 20, 2010
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