UTILIZING CLUSTERING TO IDENTIFY IP ADDRESSES USED BY A BOTNET

摘要

Methods and systems are provided for identifying suspect Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, in accordance with embodiments described herein. In particular, embodiments described herein include obtaining a set of login pairs comprising login identifiers (e.g., user identifiers) and IP addresses used in attempts to login to a source. A set of IP clusters is generated using the set of login pairs. Each IP cluster can include one or more IP addresses identified as related based on a login identifier being used to attempt to login to the source via multiple IP addresses or an IP address being used to attempt to login to the source via multiple login identifiers. Thereafter, it is determined that a particular IP cluster exceeds a threshold amount of IP addresses. Each of the IP addresses within the particular IP cluster is designated as a suspect IP address.