Meet the editors

Dr. Ciza Thomas is currently working as the Director in-charge of the Directorate of Technical Education, Government of Kerala, India. Her area of expertise is network security with research interest in the fields of information security, data mining, sensor fusion, pattern recognition, information retrieval, digital signal processing, and image processing. She has more than 60 international journals and international conference proceedings and 50

national conference publications. She has edited six books and published ten book chapters. She is a reviewer of more than ten reputed international journals including IEEE transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE transactions on Neural Networks, International Journal of Network Security, International Journal of Network Management, and IEEE-John Wiley International Journal on Security and Communications Network. She is a recipient of an achievement award in 2010 and the e-learning IT award in 2014 from Government of Kerala.

Tiago M. Fernández-Caramés (Senior Member, IEEE) has worked since 2016 as an Assistant Professor in the area of Electronic Technology at the University of A Coruña (UDC) (Spain), where he obtained his MSc degree and PhD degrees in Computer Science in 2005 and 2011. Since 2005 he has worked in the Department of Computer Engineering at UDC: from 2005 to 2009 through different predoctoral scholarships and between

2007 and 2016 as Interim Professor. His current research interests include IoT/IIoT systems, RFID, wireless sensor networks, augmented reality, embedded systems and blockchain, as well as the different technologies involved in the Industry 4.0 paradigm. In such fields, he has contributed to 40 papers for conferences, to 35 articles for JCR-indexed journals and to two book chapters. Due to his expertise in the previously mentioned fields, he has acted as peer-reviewer and guest editor for different top-rank journals, and as project reviewer for national research bodies from Austria, Croatia, Latvia and Argentina.

Paula Fraga-Lamas (Senior Member, IEEE) received her MSc degree in computer engineering from the University of A Coruña (UDC) in 2009, and her MSc and PhD degrees in the joint program Mobile Network Information and Communication Technologies from five Spanish universities: University of the Basque Country, University of Cantabria, University of Zaragoza, University of Oviedo, and University of A Coruña, in 2011

and 2017, respectively. She holds an MBA and postgraduate studies in business innovation management (Jean Monnet Chair in European Industrial Economics, UDC), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and social innovation (Inditex-UDC Chair of Sustainability). Since 2009, she has been with the Group of Electronic

Technology and Communications (GTEC), Department of Computer Engineering (UDC). She has over 70 contributions in indexed international journals, conferences and book chapters, and holds four patents. Her current research interests include Internet of Things (IoT), cyber-physical systems (CPS), augmented/mixed reality (AR/MR), fog and edge computing, blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT), cybersecurity, as well as the different technologies involved in mission-critical scenarios under the Industry 4.0 paradigm. She has also been participating in over 30 research projects funded by regional and national government as well as research and development contracts with private companies. She is actively involved in many professional and editorial activities, acting as reviewer, advisory board member, topic/guest editor of top-rank journals and TPC member of international conferences.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

**Section 4**

*by Jian Zhang*

*and Iván Gutiérrez*

*by Ciza Thomas*

Client Honeypot

Threats from Botnets *by Ji Yimu and Liu Shangdong*

*by Liu Shangdong and Ji Yimu*

**Preface XI**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Malware **13**

**Chapter 2 15**

Botnets **23**

**Chapter 3 25**

**Chapter 4 39**

Blockchain **55**

**Chapter 5 57**

**Chapter 6 73**

Introductory Chapter: Computer Security Threats

A Detection of Malware Embedded into Web Pages Using

Evaluation of Botnet Threats Based on Evidence Chain

Deploying Blockchain Technology in the Supply Chain

*by Oscar Lage, Santiago de Diego, Borja Urkizu, Eneko Gómez* 

Blockchain Applications in Cybersecurity

*by M. Veena, S. Upasana, S. Prathima and Sudha Senthilkumar*
