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  2. Botnet - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Hail Mary Cloud - Wikipedia

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    The Hail Mary Cloud was, or is, a password guessing botnet, which used a statistical equivalent to brute force password guessing. The botnet ran from possibly as early as 2005, [1] and certainly from 2007 until 2012 and possibly later. The botnet was named and documented by Peter N. M. Hansteen. [2]

  4. Torpig - Wikipedia

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    Torpig, also known as Anserin or Sinowal is a type of botnet spread through systems compromised by the Mebroot rootkit by a variety of trojan horses for the purpose of collecting sensitive personal and corporate data such as bank account and credit card information.

  5. Category:Botnets - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Donbot botnet; Dorkbot (malware) DDoS attacks on Dyn; E. Emotet; F. Fast flux ...

  6. Storm botnet - Wikipedia

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    The Storm botnet or Storm Worm botnet (also known as Dorf botnet and Ecard malware [1]) was a remotely controlled network of "zombie" computers (or "botnet") that had been linked by the Storm Worm, a Trojan horse spread through e-mail spam.

  7. ZeroAccess botnet - Wikipedia

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    Estimates botnet size vary across sources; antivirus vendor Sophos estimated the botnet size at around 1 million active and infected machines in the third quarter of 2012, and security firm Kindsight estimated 2.2 million infected and active systems. [4] [5] The bot itself is spread through the ZeroAccess rootkit through a variety of attack ...

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  9. Mirai (malware) - Wikipedia

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    The Mirai botnet was first found in August 2016 [2] by MalwareMustDie, [3] a white hat malware research group, and has been used in some of the largest and most disruptive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, including an attack on 20 September 2016 [4] on computer security journalist Brian Krebs' website, an attack on French web host ...