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  2. TeslaCrypt - Wikipedia

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    In its original, game-player campaign, upon infection the malware searched for 185 file extensions related to 40 different games, which include the Call of Duty series, World of Warcraft, Minecraft and World of Tanks, and encrypted such files.

  3. Stresser - Wikipedia

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    Usually powered by a botnet, the traffic produced by a consumer stresser can range anywhere from 5-50 Gbit/s, which can, in most cases, deny the average home user internet access. [3] Targets of booter/stresser services include network gaming services. [2] [4] Motivations for the use of stresser services include revenge, extortion, and simple ...

  4. 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]

  5. Category:Botnets - Wikipedia

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  6. Carna botnet - Wikipedia

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    World map of 24-hour relative average utilization of IPv4 addresses observed using ICMP ping requests by Carna botnet, June - October 2012. The Carna botnet was a botnet of 420,000 devices created by an anonymous hacker to measure the extent of the Internet in what the creator called the “Internet Census of 2012”.

  7. Kelihos botnet - Wikipedia

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    The Kelihos botnet is a so-called peer-to-peer botnet, where individual botnet nodes are capable of acting as command-and-control servers for the entire botnet. In traditional non-peer-to-peer botnets, all the nodes receive their instructions and "work" from a limited set of servers – if these servers are removed or taken down, the botnet will no longer receive instructions and will ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Asprox botnet - Wikipedia

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    Since its discovery in 2008 the Asprox botnet has been involved in multiple high-profile attacks on various websites in order to spread malware.The botnet itself consists of roughly 15,000 infected computers as of May, 2008, [4] although the size of the botnet itself is highly variable as the controllers of the botnet have been known to deliberately shrink (and later regrow) their botnet to ...