Sentences with phrase «use of a botnet»

The attacks included the use of botnets, networks of otherwise benign computers that are broken into and controlled remotely by an attacker.

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One of multiple botnet - controlling computer servers used by the hacker is already communicating with more than 10,000 potentially compromised devices per day, Qihoo's researchers said.

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.

News of the Satori cryptocurrency - stealing variant comes less than a month after the code for a Huawei router exploit, which was used by the Satori botnet, was posted online.

The use of US - based C&C servers to control botnets is a source of frustration to security specialists, who have long been aware of the problem.

They use massive streams of data — sent via a distributed network of computers, or botnet — to inundate web servers, so they are unable to function properly.

Now Clark and colleagues have investigated how the cloud could be used to build a botnet, a network of infected computers under an attacker's control.

To overcome this, spammers use networks of compromised computers, called botnets, to churn out new varieties of spam that can elude standard filters.

«A defensive botnet would be akin to conscription of user's computers, basically creating an amateur army the government could use any time to attack absolutely anyone it likes,» warns Edwards.

(When the security company Finjan seized a server being used to store botnet data, they found 1.4 gigabytes of material from compromised machines in the United States, the European Union, India, Canada, and Turkey, including patient data from health - care providers as well as the usual acres of business databases and email logs.

The botnet operator uses the internet of things to cover their tracks so that social media accounts they create aren't immediately flagged as bogus.

Moreover, DoS can be used to lay a false trail or otherwise cover an actual penetration of server security, and very often (almost always in significant cases) launched through botnets acquired by other hacks.

The botnet is made up of 400,000 computers and used to send out huge volumes of spam.

He oversaw investigations and prosecutions involving significant cyber breaches of personal and financial data, sales of the use of «botnets,» cyber frauds committed against multinational corporations, and insider trading schemes that obtained confidential information through cyber breaches.

Therefore when certain aggravating circumstances exist the maximum prison term for certain offences is raised to at least 5 years, for example when botnets (a network of infected computers which can be controlled remotely) are used by a criminal organization or when attacks are launched on a significant number of information systems.

The botnet - powered malware used jagged web properties to host content or propagate or simply to obscure the nature of the attack.

About a year ago, Facebook noticed a massive, one - of - a-kind botnet - powered malware slinging campaign that used various social networking services to push malicious software onto the machines of as many users as possible.

The operation marks the largest - ever use of sinkholing to combat botnet infrastructures and is unprecedented in its scale, with over 800 000 domains seized, sinkholed or blocked.»

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

For example, a botnet could be used to perform a distributed denial - of - service (DDoS) attack on a website, bombarding it with traffic from a huge amount of computers and causing the servers to become unresponsive under the load.

A botnet could also be used to load web pages in the background and click on advertising links on a huge number of different PCs.

About a year ago, Facebook noticed a massive, one - of - a-kind botnet - powered malware slinging campaign that used various social networking ser...

A CPU - focused algorithm, like Equihash, means that botnets and server farms can easily mine on the network, while having no incentive to continue mining if a more profitable use of CPU time presents itself.

Amazon's Alexa devices wouldn't be susceptible to any attack using a botnet since none of them use hard - coded, default passwords.

From there, the hackers can use their army of hacked devices, called a «botnet,» to overwhelm whatever server they aim it at.

Called Mirai, the malware works by «enslaving vast numbers of these devices into a botnet, which is then used to conduct DDoS attacks,» Flashpoint researchers said in a statement.

The leaked NSA tools were used in a recent cryptocurrency attack, called Adylkuzz, which used an army of hacked computers, a botnet, to mine cryptocurrency and redirect reward points to the attackers» accounts.

«We've already witnessed malware like the Mirai botnet utilizing default passwords in devices to exploit them; it's only a matter of time before a similar strategy is used for medical devices,» Rios tells ISMG.

Adding connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices — such as smart TVs, smart - home gadgets, gaming consoles and even Wi - Fi routers — to a home provides plenty of convenience, but without security, it may help create botnet armies that can be used to take down even well - defended websites.

A variant of the Mirai botnet is likely to have been used in attacks against one or more companies in the financial sector in January, the security firm Recorded Future claims, pointing out that this is the first time a botnet made up of Internet of Things devices has been used since Mirai.