Saturday 18 December 2021

Botnet

 Botnet

 

A bot is a computer that has been compromised through a malware infection and can be controlled remotely by a cyber-criminal by command and control server.

Bot is short for robot

Botnet could be brought by a network worm it could be a virus or by a Trojan horse.

Types of attack that can be launched after a computer has been taken over as a bot include

(i) Spam Bot: Spambot is a machine that automatically distributes spam emails

(ii) Denial of Service: Attacker can do denial of service attack

(iii) Attacker can install spyware or keylogger

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