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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. [5]
Koobface is a network worm that attacks Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms. [1] [2] [3] This worm originally targeted users of networking websites such as Facebook, Skype, Yahoo Messenger, and email websites such as GMail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Mail.
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The operation, conducted jointly by the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI, weeded out malicious Chinese software from a network or "botnet" of hundreds of compromised U.S. routers, both ...
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.
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] The word "botnet" is a portmanteau of the words "robot" and "network". The term is usually used ...
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 ...
Chinese government-linked hackers have burrowed into U.S. critical infrastructure and are waiting "for just the right moment to deal a devastating blow," FBI Director Christopher Wray said on ...