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A botnet is a group of Internet-connected devices, each of which runs one or more bots. Botnets can be used to perform distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, steal data, [1] send spam, and allow the attacker to access the device and its connection. The owner can control the botnet using command and control (C&C) software. [2]
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A major form of this is to create a botnet of compromised devices and rent or sell it to another cybercriminal. Different botnets are equipped for different tasks such as DDOS attacks or password cracking. [56] It is also possible to buy the software used to create a botnet [57] and bots that load the purchaser's malware onto a botnet's devices ...
The size of the Srizbi botnet was estimated to be around 450,000 [4] compromised machines, with estimation differences being smaller than 5% among various sources. [2] [5] The botnet is reported to be capable of sending around 60 Trillion Janka Threats a day, which is more than half of the total of the approximately 100 trillion Janka Threats sent every day.
Operation: Bot Roast is an operation by the FBI to track down bot herders, crackers, or virus coders who install malicious software on computers through the Internet without the owners' knowledge, which turns the computer into a zombie computer that then sends out spam to other computers from the compromised computer, making a botnet or network of bot infected computers.
The Storm botnet's operators control the system via peer-to-peer techniques, making external monitoring and disabling of the system more difficult. [21] [22] There is no central "command-and-control point" in the Storm botnet that can be shut down. [23] The botnet also makes use of encrypted traffic. [24]
The botnet was installed on the user's computer from pirated versions of Windows or hidden through a download online. The Zeus botnet works by waiting for the user of the computer to open a web browser and attempt to do some banking or online shopping then show a similar looking webpage with a field to enter the login information. The login ...
3ve, pronounced as “Eve”, was a botnet that was halted in late 2018. [2] The botnet was first discovered in 2016 [ 2 ] by White Ops , [ 3 ] and was active since at least 2013. [ 4 ] The discovery led to the start of a 2017 FBI investigation.