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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]
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 Bagle botnet consists of an estimated 150,000-230,000 [17] computers infected with the Bagle Computer worm. It was estimated that the botnet was responsible for about 10.39% of the worldwide spam volume on December 29, 2009, with a surge up to 14% on New Year's Day, [18] though the actual percentage seems to rise and drop rapidly. [19]
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 Mariposa botnet, discovered December 2008, [1] is a botnet mainly involved in cyberscamming and denial-of-service attacks. [2] [3] Before the botnet itself was dismantled on 23 December 2009, it consisted of up to 12 million unique IP addresses or up to 1 million individual zombie computers infected with the "Butterfly (mariposa in Spanish) Bot", making it one of the largest known botnets.
The original Darknet Diaries logo, which was replaced by the current flaming laptop logo in 2019. Darknet Diaries is an investigative podcast created by Jack Rhysider (/ r iː ˈ s aɪ d ər /), chronicling true stories about crackers, malware, botnets, cryptography, cryptocurrency, cybercrime, and Internet privacy, all subjects falling under the umbrella of "tales from the dark side of the ...
Botnet is a jargon term for a collection of software robots, or "bots", that run autonomously and automatically. He hijacked somewhere in the area of half a million computer systems. This not only affected computers like the one in your home, but it allowed him and others to orchestrate large-scale attacks.