Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 20 views

    Threats of Botnet Attack - Edited

    Uploaded by

    WilliamAruga
    Botnets pose significant security threats and refer to networks of compromised computers controlled remotely by hackers. Botnets allow hackers to control large numbers of machines undetected, making threats difficult to predict and locate. Historically, botnet attacks have paralyzed networks and impacted economies and politics. Botnets have two stages - initially spreading as a virus before forming a command and control network. This structure gives botnets flexibility, concealment, and the ability to launch diverse attacks through few commands.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Threats of Botnet Attack - Edited

    Uploaded by

    WilliamAruga
    20 views3 pages
    Botnets pose significant security threats and refer to networks of compromised computers controlled remotely by hackers. Botnets allow hackers to control large numbers of machines undetected, making threats difficult to predict and locate. Historically, botnet attacks have paralyzed networks and impacted economies and politics. Botnets have two stages - initially spreading as a virus before forming a command and control network. This structure gives botnets flexibility, concealment, and the ability to launch diverse attacks through few commands.

    Original Description:

    Threats on bonet

    Original Title

    Threats of Botnet Attack.edited

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Botnets pose significant security threats and refer to networks of compromised computers controlled remotely by hackers. Botnets allow hackers to control large numbers of machines undetected, making threats difficult to predict and locate. Historically, botnet attacks have paralyzed networks and impacted economies and politics. Botnets have two stages - initially spreading as a virus before forming a command and control network. This structure gives botnets flexibility, concealment, and the ability to launch diverse attacks through few commands.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    20 views3 pages

    Threats of Botnet Attack - Edited

    Uploaded by

    WilliamAruga
    Botnets pose significant security threats and refer to networks of compromised computers controlled remotely by hackers. Botnets allow hackers to control large numbers of machines undetected, making threats difficult to predict and locate. Historically, botnet attacks have paralyzed networks and impacted economies and politics. Botnets have two stages - initially spreading as a virus before forming a command and control network. This structure gives botnets flexibility, concealment, and the ability to launch diverse attacks through few commands.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    You are on page 1of 3

    THREATS OF A BOTNET ATTACK 1

    Threats of Botnet Attack

    Name

    Institution
    THREATS OF A BOTNET ATTACK 2

    Threats of a Botnet attack

    A botnet refers to an attack of the platform, which is made Bots controlled through commands

    hackers often sent to it (Barroso, 2007). Hackers control Bots behaviors, as well. For that matter,

    the Botnet attack is controlled generally by subjective hackers’ consciousness. This brings about

    threats that are generated by enabling all the processes to be difficult to be located, thus making

    the threat prediction to be hard too. For the last century, attacks resulting from Botnet caused

    paralysis of network equipment alongside affecting the levels of economy and politics of a

    country. The act involved the aspects of the military. Botnet attacks have turned out to be the

    most significant threats of security within the whole globe (Geer, 2005). This happens for

    multiple reasons. For instance, the chronology of Botnet development occurs in two stages. It is

    majorly a form of virus or rather a worm during the first phase and it changes to the platform of

    Botnet in its second stage.

    The merit of the virus is that it is rapidly transmitted with swift infections. The hacker can never

    control the Bot. The virus is a small scale though it appears to be uncontainable (Geer, 2005).

    The Botnet syndicates the merits of the virus, thus overcoming its shortcomings. Therefore, it is

    incredibly famous among hackers. The virus threat has integration features. The botnet control

    command is issued through the servers of C&C. The invasions and attacks are finalized through

    control Bots. The C&C servers, together with the control hosts, make connections and requests

    via HTTP packets. In this approach, hackers only require to send a few commands towards the

    C&C servers to launch forms of attacks that are diversified. This enhances Botnet's flexibility

    and promotes Botnet's concealment.


    THREATS OF A BOTNET ATTACK 3

    References

    Barroso, D. (2007). Botnets-the silent threat. European Network and Information Security

    Agency (ENISA), 15(2007), 171.

    Geer, D. (2005). Malicious bots threaten network security. Computer, 38(1), 18-20.

    You might also like