The 2016 is remembered as the year that showed to the world how dangerous
Distributed Denial of Service attacks can be. Gauge of the disruptiveness of
DDoS attacks is the number of bots involved: the bigger the botnet, the more
powerful the attack. This character, along with the increasing availability of
connected and insecure IoT devices, makes DDoS and IoT the perfect pair for the
malware industry. In this paper we present the main idea behind AntibIoTic, a
palliative solution to prevent DDoS attacks perpetrated through IoT devices
