Botnet information

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)...

Storm botnet or Storm worm botnet (also known as Dorf botnet and Ecard malware) was a remotely controlled network of "zombie" computers (or "botnet") that...

The Necurs botnet is a distributor of many pieces of malware, most notably Locky. Around June 1, 2016, the botnet went offline, perhaps due to a glitch...

punished to the full extent of the law. The DCU has taken down many major botnets such as the Citadel, Rustock, and Zeus. Around the world malware has cost...

integrated into a botnet, considered to be one of the most sophisticated and secure botnets in the world at the time. The GOZ botnet was particularly notable...

The Asprox botnet (discovered around 2008), also known by its aliases Badsrc and Aseljo, is a botnet mostly involved in phishing scams and performing...

Srizbi BotNet is considered one of the world's largest botnets, and responsible for sending out more than half of all the spam being sent by all the major...

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...

The Rustock botnet was a botnet that operated from around 2006 until March 2011. It consisted of computers running Microsoft Windows, and was capable...

malware on an infected machine from a botnet while remaining hidden using rootkit techniques. The ZeroAccess botnet was discovered at least around May 2011...

The Cutwail botnet, founded around 2007, is a botnet mostly involved in sending spam e-mails. The bot is typically installed on infected machines by a...

The Mariposa botnet, discovered December 2008, is a botnet mainly involved in cyberscamming and denial-of-service attacks. Before the botnet itself was...

The Bredolab botnet, also known by its alias Oficla, was a Russian botnet mostly involved in viral e-mail spam. Before the botnet was eventually dismantled...

(computer worm) Botnet Conficker Gameover ZeuS Regin (malware) Rustock botnet Srizbi botnet Storm botnet Trojan.Win32.DNSChanger ZeroAccess botnet Zeus (malware)...

Festi is a rootkit and a botnet also known by its alias of Spamnost, and is mostly involved in email spam and denial of service attacks. It works under...

The Metulji botnet, discovered in June 2011, is a botnet mainly involved in cyberscamming and denial of service attacks. Before the botnet itself was dismantled...

The Grum botnet, also known by its alias Tedroo and Reddyb, was a botnet mostly involved in sending pharmaceutical spam e-mails. Once the world's largest...

The Kelihos botnet, also known as Hlux, is a botnet mainly involved in spamming and the theft of bitcoins. The Kelihos botnet was first discovered around...

The Mevade Botnet, also known as Sefnit or SBC, is a massive botnet. Its operators are unknown and its motives seems to be multi-purpose. In late 2013...

aliases Buzus and Bachsoy, is a botnet mostly involved in sending pharmaceutical and stock-based e-mail spam. The Donbot botnet is thought to consist of roughly...

The Nitol botnet mostly involved in spreading malware and distributed denial-of-service attacks. The Nitol Botnet was first discovered around December...

The Kraken botnet is a network hacking spyware program that attacks Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh systems through email and World Wide Web sites...

its aliases Waled and Waledpak, was a botnet mostly involved in e-mail spam and malware. In March 2010 the botnet was taken down by Microsoft. Before its...

machine into a zombie, an unwilling member in a botnet. In order to maintain connection in the botnet, Tinba is coded with four domains, so if one goes...

layer DDoS attack BASHLITE Botnet Dendroid (Malware) Denial-of-service attack Rootkit Zombie (computer science) ZeroAccess botnet "Linux DDoS Trojan hiding...