Oct 22

Play it Smart: Safe Hex

Botnets are businesses that bring tens of billions dollars in revenue per year. It is not hard to imagine that these threats don’t come from script kiddies, but rather from experienced hackers that have a solid business plan, along with all the necessary resources to improve and [...]

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Oct 21

BOTNETS: Future Outlook

Botmasters are generally known for their laziness. As long as the current methods keep working, there would be little motivation for develop innovative malware. This is the very reason most botnets stuck to IRC channels long after they have become obsolete in favor of the more “ [...]

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Oct 14

Botnet: 10 Years of Security Threats

As compared to the PC viruses and worms, botnets are recently new threats to the IT landscape.

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Sep 15

Anatomy of a Botnet

Command and control are essential steps tin maintaining an operational botnet, but at the same time, they are the weakest link of the system.

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Sep 2

Commercial Applications of Botnets

Botmasters usually don’t keep their electronic assets to themselves. Given the fact that they own tremendous computing capabilities, they often tend to sell or rent their botnets to other malware authors.

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Aug 27

Virtual Entities Spreading Real Troubles - Botnets

Now that we have seen what bots are able to do as individual entities, let’s detail upon what they can do as a united army of computers scattered across all the geographic and political regions on the globe.

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Aug 11

What Bots Can Do?

Bots are highly specialized tools that can perform multiple tasks for their masters. However, they all share a common set of essential features. The common features might be implemented with various names on miscellaneous bots, but they ultimately have the same destructive poten [...]

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