: a network of computers that have been linked together by malware : a network of bots (see bot entry 1 sense 2b)
Criminals link hijacked personal computers together to form "botnets"—clusters of infected PCs that spammers can control from anywhere in the world.—
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Tech giants such as Google long have had a playbook for destroying botnets like Glupteba.
—Paresh Dave, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2024
In this case, the botnet leveraged the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), which is designed to transfer data quickly, but can be exploited to create a large DDoS, also known as a UDP flood attack.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 2 Oct. 2024
Russia-state hackers have also been caught assembling large IoT botnets for the same purposes.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2024
Gadgets catch on fire, get hacked so that remote intruders can spy on you, or get infected with malware that turns them into botnets.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2024
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Paresh Dave, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2024
In this case, the botnet leveraged the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), which is designed to transfer data quickly, but can be exploited to create a large DDoS, also known as a UDP flood attack.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 2 Oct. 2024
Russia-state hackers have also been caught assembling large IoT botnets for the same purposes.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2024
Gadgets catch on fire, get hacked so that remote intruders can spy on you, or get infected with malware that turns them into botnets.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2024
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“Botnet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/botnet. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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