Examples of using Botnets in English and their translations into Vietnamese
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Botnets most recently!
This is probably one of the most sophisticated botnets on the planet.
Botnets can be used to send spam and attack other Web sites, but they need to be able to receive new instructions.
The only way Ican see of doing it is to choke off the botnets.
Botnets are networks of computers that are infected with malwares and are remotely controlled by hackers to serve their own purposes.
We have already seen countries like Estonia andGeorgia knocked off the Internet by Russia-based hackers using botnets.
It seems that the location of botnets is relatively stable, or at least there is a lull in the active relocation of botnets.
Disabling computers capability toautomatically connect to each other closes the path that botnets take to spread to the internal network.
FortiGuard Labs analyzed mobile botnets such as Zitmo and found they have many of the same features and functionality of traditional PC botnets.
Echobot was discovered by Palo Alto Networks, and its report on the botnetconcludes that it is an effort to form larger botnets to execute larger DDoS attacks.
Following a sharp increase in Q3, the share of Linux botnets remained at the same level in the fourth quarter(71% vs. 29% for Windows botnets).
The botnets are responsible for some expensive security incidents on the internet and have infected a large number of computer and mobile devices.
Windows PCs were also targeted by Emotet and Trickbot,two types of Trojan botnets, as well as new ransomware including Ryuk, Sodinokibi, and Phobos.
Now, however, botnets are being used for more than just the criminal activities of social misfits eager to make a quick buck off of naive users.
Canada, Turkey and Lithuania entered the top 10 countries where C&C(command& control)servers controlling DDoS botnets are located, taking the previous places Italy, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom held on the list.
Lead the way in botnets, hosting 4.6 percent and 4.1 percent of the United States' bot population, respectively, containing more bots per capita than the countries of Belgium, Sri Lanka and Austria.
It is highly probable that victim machines will not only be used forspreading links via these social networking sites, but the botnets will also be used for other malicious purposes.
Until now, there have been no reports of DDoS botnets targeting smart speakers, smart displays, or consumer electronic appliances such as smart refrigerators.
According to statistics from CyStack Security, more than 1400 Memcached servers in Vietnamhave dangerous vulnerable with the risk of becoming botnets for large-scale DDoS attacks.
Since botnets are global in nature, an infected device in the United States, for example, could contribute to an attack in Asia and be controlled by a cybercriminal somewhere in Europe.
It integrates several external databases(including Google Safe Browsing) that identify domains and IPs related to malware,phishing, botnets, command and control servers, social engineering, etc.
Botnets created from the Mirai malware were at least partly responsible for Friday's massive internet disruption, according to Dyn, the DNS service provider targeted in the assault.
In June last year, the tech giant Microsoft along with the FBI andfinancial services companies launched a"takedown" operation against Citadel botnets, which had stolen more than $500 million from bank accounts over the past 18 months.
The traditional way of managing botnets is using IRC, but botnet owners are continuously working on finding new ways of keeping their networks up and running, and Twitter seems to be the latest trick.
For the past two-three years, there has beena deluge of news articles and research papers detailing large botnets built by exploiting router vulnerabilities and by hijacking devices still running default login credentials.
The challenges to shutting botnets down include the widespread availability and ongoing purchases of insecure devices, the near impossibility of simply locking infected machines out of the internet, and difficulty tracking down and prosecuting the botnet creators.
Mobile botnets actually offer a significant advantage over traditional botnets: smartphones are rarely shut down, making the botnet far more reliable since almost all its assets are always available and ready for new instructions.
Microsoft also provided information about the botnets' operations to international Computer Emergency Response Teams, and the FBI also provided information to foreign law enforcement agencies, in order to shut down the Citadel operations outside the United States.
We have seen IoT botnets like Mirai- possibly the biggest IoT-based malware threat that emerged late last year and caused vast internet outage by launching massive DDoS attacks against DynDNS provider- which proves how easy it is to hack these connected devices.
Since all- I repeat all- botnets run on poorly secured Windows systems, I think Internet service providers have to either block compromised PCs from getting to the Internet in the first place or force-feed security upgrades into them.