Sentences with phrase «target of botnet»

IoT devices are frequently the target of botnet attacks.

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Neither Check Point nor Qihoo is certain what the attacker's intentions may be, but if history provides any insight, it's not unreasonable to expect that the botnet could unleash overwhelming barrages of distributed denial of service attacks against targets of its botmaster's choosing.

A newly discovered variant of the Satori botnet is targeting computers dedicated to mining cryptocurrency to steal Ethereum coins by exploiting a flaw in the Claymore Miner software, researchers have reported.

Dynamic domain name service provider Dyn was one of the targets of the Mirai botnet DDoS attacks in October last year, preventing a significant number of users from accessing websites and online services.