Global InformationMariposa botnet information
The Mariposa botnet, discovered December 2008,[1] is a botnet mainly involved in cyberscamming and denial-of-service attacks.[2][3] Before the botnet itself was dismantled on 23 December 2009, it consisted of up to 12 million unique IP addresses or up to 1 million individual zombie computers infected with the "Butterfly (mariposa in Spanish) Bot", making it one of the largest known botnets.[3][4][5]
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- ^ Thompson, Matt (7 October 2009). "Mariposa Botnet Analysis" (PDF). Defintel. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 July 2011. Retrieved 29 July 2010.
- ^ Krebs, Brian. "Accused Mariposa Botnet Operators Sought Jobs at Spanish Security Firm". Archived from the original on 19 October 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2014.