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 multiply the malicious potential of their tools.
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 “modern” IM services.
Botnet: 10 Years of Security Threats
As compared to the PC viruses and worms, botnets are recently new threats to the IT landscape.
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.
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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