Sentences with phrase «part of a botnet»

Your fridge could also just become part of a botnet used to attack and infect others.

«In addition to potentially becoming part of a botnet, the router also grants attackers a beachhead in your environment.

My home becoming part of a botnet is one of my concerns.

Some people have estimated that 500 million computers each year become part of botnets.

The malicious deployment of in - browser JavaScript - based cryptocurrency mining scripts has continued the past week, and we've seen them reach Android applications on the official Google Play Store, but we've also seen the first mass - deployment as part of a botnet of hacked WordPress sites.

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In October of last year, the «Mirai» botnet — an army of enslaved devices that hackers used to attack key parts of the Internet — rendered top websites, like Amazon, Netflix, Twitter, and many others inaccessible for millions of people.

The interdependent parts of this economy include agreed - upon systems for testing product (a sector of a botnet to confirm the available bandwidth, a few credit cards from a batch to make sure they're real and to check the balances), money - back guarantees, nicely designed interfaces, partnership programs, and, charmingly, free champagne for closing a deal together.

They actually took over part of an existing spam botnet, and sent their own spam to test the response.

The botnet, a collection of internet - connected devices, was sued to take down large parts of the internet in October 2016.

«We observed 10s of millions of discrete IP addresses associated with the Mirai botnet that were part of the attack,» Dyn said in statement.

CryptoLocker has been verified to arrive through email attachments, via the Java plug - in, and installed on computers that are part of the Zeus botnet.