botnet

The Rustock botnet, which sent up to 30 billion spam messages per day, might have been run by two or three people.

Such "zombie" machines can be linked up to thousands, if not millions, of others around the world to create a "botnet" .

There has been a range of speculation about the nature of the threat posed by the botnet, from a wake-up call to a devastating attack.

Weidman's program is one of the first known to turn smart phones into nodes of a botnet.

This led the Symantec researchers to wonder if this was, in fact, the first case of a mobile botnet being spotted in the wild.

Botnet has stepped into the expanding phase, and has been a serious threat to Internet security.

Becoming part of a botnet requires the installation of a remotely accessible command and control application on the computer under attack.

It could also be used to completely hijack the computer, adding it to a botnet.

Users do not have to do anything to become infected; simply rendering a Web page can launch a botnet exploit.

If any anon fails to be inspired by the target, she can remove her own computer from the volunteer botnet, reducing its effect.

The virus created a so-called "botnet" , a network of computers that could be controlled by the writers of the software.

Last week, investigators quickly located computers that were involved with the control of the botnet in Britain and several other countries.

The existence of the botnet has brought together some of the world's best computer security experts to prevent potential damage.

The storage site was hosted in the Ukraine and its contents showed that the botnet was harvesting data.

The results show that botnet detection is completed in expected round under controlled false positive rate and false negative rate.

As an added twist, a number of underground forums even sell botnet software for do-it-yourselfers.

This paper describes the IRC-based botnet. First, we explain the botnet behavior and the hard to solve problems for security officer.

This could allow malicious sites to steal private data, send spam, or enlist the computer in a botnet.

Botnets continue to proliferate, despite recent botnet takedowns.

These related emails were then reduced to hosts (static or dynamic IP address) to identify the botnet in question.

Using the telecommunications network, rather than the Internet, for botnet control allows attackers to hide their actions from users.

RICHARD BOSCOVICH: "It's not just one botnet but probably hundreds of different botnets that come from this particular code base. "

Botnet is deemed the most dangerous threat, and has posed terrible impact in many aspects.

The students then hired the services of several botnet controllers to systematically click on ad links that were displayed on these sites.

There's no magic "cyberspace command" solution the USAF can unleash to defeat a botnet.

They buy advanced code on the Internet's black market, customize it, then sell or rent the resulting botnet to the highest bidders.

Haley said news of the Apple botnet is significant in part because it's something other authors of malicious code can build from.

Then they changed the orders, effectively zombifying the botnet for their own research.

"Then you have every computer in China potentially as part of a botnet, " Colin Maclay, also of Harvard, told BBC News.

Botnet have hidden attackers, and the characteristics of high flexibility, but also an ability to control multiple computers.

It's not impossible to catch a botnet in the act.

An event that is not that unusual is that somebody steals a botnet from someone else.

China, on the other hand, only sends 0. 33% of the global botnet spam.

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