Botnet Resiliency via Private Blockchains

Criminals operating botnets are persistently in an arms race with network security engineers and law enforcement agencies to make botnets more resilient. Innovative features constantly increase the resiliency of botnets but cannot mitigate all the weaknesses exploited by researchers. Blockchain technology includes features which could improve the resiliency of botnet communications. A trusted, distributed, resilient, fully-functioning command and control communication channel can be achieved using the combined features of private blockchains and smart contracts.