Botnet (English Wikipedia)

Putman, C. G. J.; Abhishta; Nieuwenhuis, L. J. M. (March 2018). "Business Model of a Botnet". 2018 26th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP). pp. 441–445. arXiv:1804.10848. Bibcode:2018arXiv180410848P. doi:10.1109/PDP2018.2018.00077. ISBN 978-1-5386-4975-6. S2CID 13756969.
Meidan, Yair (2018). "N-BaIoT-Network-Based Detection of IoT Botnet Attacks Using Deep Autoencoders". IEEE Pervasive Computing. 17 (3): 12–22. arXiv:1805.03409. doi:10.1109/MPRV.2018.03367731. S2CID 13677639.

bbc.co.uk

news.bbc.co.uk

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bbc.com

"One of world's biggest botnets taken down, US says". 25 May 2024. Archived from the original on 30 May 2024. Retrieved 30 May 2024.

bizjournals.com

Credeur, Mary. "Atlanta Business Chronicle, Staff Writer". bizjournals.com. Archived from the original on 22 March 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2002.
Mary Jane Credeur (22 July 2002). "EarthLink wins $25 million lawsuit against junk e-mailer". Archived from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 10 December 2018.

bleepingcomputer.com

Cimpanu, Catalin (6 June 2017). "Russian State Hackers Use Britney Spears Instagram Posts to Control Malware". Bleeping Computer. Archived from the original on 8 June 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2017.

blorge.com

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Wang, Ping (2010). "Peer-to-peer botnets". In Stamp, Mark; Stavroulakis, Peter (eds.). Handbook of Information and Communication Security. Springer. ISBN 9783642041174. Archived from the original on 22 June 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2016.

broadcom.com

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"Symantec.cloud | Email Security, Web Security, Endpoint Protection, Archiving, Continuity, Instant Messaging Security". Messagelabs.com. Archived from the original on 18 November 2020. Retrieved 30 January 2014.

businessinsider.com

Edwards, Jim (27 November 2013). "This Is What It Looks Like When A Click-Fraud Botnet Secretly Controls Your Web Browser". Archived from the original on 23 July 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.

canada.com

www2.canada.com

"Infosecurity (UK) - BredoLab downed botnet linked with Spamit.com". .canada.com. Archived from the original on 11 May 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2011.

cisco.com

"Cisco ASA Botnet Traffic Filter Guide". Archived from the original on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.

cleveland.com

Teresa Dixon Murray (28 September 2012). "Banks can't prevent cyber attacks like those hitting PNC, Key, U.S. Bank this week". Cleveland.com. Archived from the original on 25 July 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2014.

computer.org

Paulson, L.D. (April 2006). "News Briefs: Hackers Strengthen Malicious Botnets by Shrinking Them" (PDF). Computer. 39 (4): 17–19. doi:10.1109/MC.2006.136. S2CID 10312905. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 November 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2013. The size of bot networks peaked in mid-2004, with many using more than 100,000 infected machines, according to Mark Sunner, chief technology officer at MessageLabs. The average botnet size is now about 20,000 computers, he said.

computerworld.com

Gregg Keizer (9 April 2008). "Top botnets control 1M hijacked computers". Computerworld. Archived from the original on 13 August 2014. Retrieved 23 April 2011.

crowdstrike.com

"Botnets: Definition, Types, How They Work". Crowdstrike. Archived from the original on 10 January 2023. Retrieved 18 April 2021.

damballa.com

"Operation Aurora — The Command Structure". Damballa.com. Archived from the original on 11 June 2010. Retrieved 30 July 2010.
Many-to-Many Botnet Relationships Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Damballa, 8 June 2009.

darkreading.com

"Brute-Force Botnet Attacks Now Elude Volumetric Detection". DARKReading from Information Week. 19 December 2016. Archived from the original on 14 November 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
"New Massive Botnet Twice the Size of Storm — Security/Perimeter". DarkReading. 7 April 2008. Archived from the original on 11 June 2016. Retrieved 30 July 2010.

doi.org

Putman, C. G. J.; Abhishta; Nieuwenhuis, L. J. M. (March 2018). "Business Model of a Botnet". 2018 26th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP). pp. 441–445. arXiv:1804.10848. Bibcode:2018arXiv180410848P. doi:10.1109/PDP2018.2018.00077. ISBN 978-1-5386-4975-6. S2CID 13756969.
Schiller, Craig A.; Binkley, Jim; Harley, David; Evron, Gadi; Bradley, Tony; Willems, Carsten; Cross, Michael (1 January 2007). Botnets. Burlington, Virginia: Syngress. pp. 29–75. doi:10.1016/B978-159749135-8/50004-4. ISBN 9781597491358.
Heron, Simon (1 April 2007). "Botnet command and control techniques". Network Security. 2007 (4): 13–16. doi:10.1016/S1353-4858(07)70045-4.
Schiller, Craig A.; Binkley, Jim; Harley, David; Evron, Gadi; Bradley, Tony; Willems, Carsten; Cross, Michael (1 January 2007). "Alternative Botnet C&Cs". Botnets. Burlington, Virginia: Syngress. pp. 77–95. doi:10.1016/B978-159749135-8/50005-6. ISBN 978-159749135-8.
Meidan, Yair (2018). "N-BaIoT-Network-Based Detection of IoT Botnet Attacks Using Deep Autoencoders". IEEE Pervasive Computing. 17 (3): 12–22. arXiv:1805.03409. doi:10.1109/MPRV.2018.03367731. S2CID 13677639.
García, S.; Grill, M.; Stiborek, J.; Zunino, A. (1 September 2014). "An empirical comparison of botnet detection methods". Computers & Security. 45: 100–123. doi:10.1016/j.cose.2014.05.011. hdl:11336/6772. ISSN 0167-4048. Archived from the original on 9 December 2022. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
Paulson, L.D. (April 2006). "News Briefs: Hackers Strengthen Malicious Botnets by Shrinking Them" (PDF). Computer. 39 (4): 17–19. doi:10.1109/MC.2006.136. S2CID 10312905. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 November 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2013. The size of bot networks peaked in mid-2004, with many using more than 100,000 infected machines, according to Mark Sunner, chief technology officer at MessageLabs. The average botnet size is now about 20,000 computers, he said.

dslreports.com

"Trojan horse, and Virus FAQ". DSLReports. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2011.

eweek.com

"Researchers Boot Million Linux Kernels to Help Botnet Research". IT Security & Network Security News. 12 August 2009. Retrieved 16 August 2024.

f-secure.com

"Calculating the Size of the Downadup Outbreak — F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab". F-secure.com. 16 January 2009. Archived from the original on 23 May 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2010.

fdlp.gov

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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism (2018). Taking Down Botnets: Public and Private Efforts to Disrupt and Dismantle Cybercriminal Networks: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, Second Session, July 15, 2014. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Publishing Office. Archived from the original on 22 June 2024. Retrieved 18 November 2018.

ftc.gov

FTC. "Social Media Bots and Deceptive Advertising" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 June 2024. Retrieved 26 July 2020.

garwarner.blogspot.com

Warner, Gary (2 December 2010). "Oleg Nikolaenko, Mega-D Botmaster to Stand Trial". CyberCrime & Doing Time. Archived from the original on 7 January 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2010.

gizmodo.com

Aguilar, Mario (14 April 2015). "The Number of People Who Fall for Phishing Emails Is Staggering". Gizmodo. Archived from the original on 24 March 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2019.

h-online.com

"New Zealand teenager accused of controlling botnet of 1.3 million computers". The H security. 30 November 2007. Archived from the original on 8 March 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2011.

handle.net

hdl.handle.net

García, S.; Grill, M.; Stiborek, J.; Zunino, A. (1 September 2014). "An empirical comparison of botnet detection methods". Computers & Security. 45: 100–123. doi:10.1016/j.cose.2014.05.011. hdl:11336/6772. ISSN 0167-4048. Archived from the original on 9 December 2022. Retrieved 8 December 2023.

harvard.edu

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Putman, C. G. J.; Abhishta; Nieuwenhuis, L. J. M. (March 2018). "Business Model of a Botnet". 2018 26th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP). pp. 441–445. arXiv:1804.10848. Bibcode:2018arXiv180410848P. doi:10.1109/PDP2018.2018.00077. ISBN 978-1-5386-4975-6. S2CID 13756969.

honeynet.org

"Uses of botnets | The Honeynet Project". www.honeynet.org. Archived from the original on 20 March 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2019.

infoaleph.wordpress.com

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irchelp.org

"IRCHelp.org – Privacy on IRC". www.irchelp.org. Archived from the original on 22 June 2024. Retrieved 21 November 2020.

malwarebytes.com

blog.malwarebytes.com

Arntz, Pieter (30 March 2016). "The Facts about Botnets". Malwarebytes Labs. Archived from the original on 17 July 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.

msmvps.com

"Pushdo Botnet — New DDOS attacks on major web sites — Harry Waldron — IT Security". Msmvps.com. 2 February 2010. Archived from the original on 16 August 2010. Retrieved 30 July 2010.

networkworld.com

"America's 10 most wanted botnets". Networkworld.com. 22 July 2009. Archived from the original on 22 June 2024. Retrieved 10 November 2011.

pcworld.com

Constantin, Lucian (25 July 2013). "Cybercriminals are using the Tor network to control their botnets". PC World. Archived from the original on 3 August 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
Kirk, Jeremy (16 August 2012). "Spamhaus Declares Grum Botnet Dead, but Festi Surges". PC World. Archived from the original on 1 July 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2016.

phys.org

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psu.edu

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sans.org

Ramneek, Puri (8 August 2003). "Bots &; Botnet: An Overview". SANS Institute. Archived from the original on 12 July 2015. Retrieved 12 November 2013.

sciencedirect.com

García, S.; Grill, M.; Stiborek, J.; Zunino, A. (1 September 2014). "An empirical comparison of botnet detection methods". Computers & Security. 45: 100–123. doi:10.1016/j.cose.2014.05.011. hdl:11336/6772. ISSN 0167-4048. Archived from the original on 9 December 2022. Retrieved 8 December 2023.

scmagazine.com

Chuck Miller (5 May 2009). "Researchers hijack control of Torpig botnet". SC Magazine US. Archived from the original on 24 December 2007. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
Chuck Miller (25 July 2008). "The Rustock botnet spams again". SC Magazine US. Archived from the original on 4 April 2016. Retrieved 30 July 2010.

secureworks.com

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securityintelligence.com

"Thingbots: The Future of Botnets in the Internet of Things". Security Intelligence. 20 February 2016. Archived from the original on 7 January 2023. Retrieved 28 July 2017.

semanticscholar.org

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Putman, C. G. J.; Abhishta; Nieuwenhuis, L. J. M. (March 2018). "Business Model of a Botnet". 2018 26th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP). pp. 441–445. arXiv:1804.10848. Bibcode:2018arXiv180410848P. doi:10.1109/PDP2018.2018.00077. ISBN 978-1-5386-4975-6. S2CID 13756969.
Meidan, Yair (2018). "N-BaIoT-Network-Based Detection of IoT Botnet Attacks Using Deep Autoencoders". IEEE Pervasive Computing. 17 (3): 12–22. arXiv:1805.03409. doi:10.1109/MPRV.2018.03367731. S2CID 13677639.
Paulson, L.D. (April 2006). "News Briefs: Hackers Strengthen Malicious Botnets by Shrinking Them" (PDF). Computer. 39 (4): 17–19. doi:10.1109/MC.2006.136. S2CID 10312905. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 November 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2013. The size of bot networks peaked in mid-2004, with many using more than 100,000 infected machines, according to Mark Sunner, chief technology officer at MessageLabs. The average botnet size is now about 20,000 computers, he said.

senate.gov

judiciary.senate.gov

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spider.io

"Discovered: Botnet Costing Display Advertisers over Six Million Dollars per Month". Spider.io. 19 March 2013. Archived from the original on 9 July 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2013.

symantec.com

"Sality: Story of a Peer-to-Peer Viral Network" (PDF). Symantec. 3 August 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 12 January 2012.

techopedia.com

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techtarget.com

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theregister.co.uk

Nichols, Shaun (24 June 2014). "Got a botnet? Thinking of using it to mine Bitcoin? Don't bother". Archived from the original on 14 September 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
"How FBI, police busted massive botnet". theregister.co.uk. Archived from the original on 5 March 2010. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
"Waledac botnet 'decimated' by MS takedown". The Register. 16 March 2010. Archived from the original on 18 April 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
"Botnet sics zombie soldiers on gimpy websites". The Register. 14 May 2008. Archived from the original on 11 May 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2011.

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"DISCLOSURE: Detecting Botnet Command and Control Servers Through Large-Scale NetFlow Analysis" (PDF). Annual Computer Security Applications Conference. ACM. December 2012. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2017.

umich.edu

vhosts.eecs.umich.edu

"Detecting and Dismantling Botnet Command and Control Infrastructure using Behavioral Profilers and Bot Informants". vhosts.eecs.umich.edu.

vox.com

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"Thingbots: The Future of Botnets in the Internet of Things". Security Intelligence. 20 February 2016. Archived from the original on 7 January 2023. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
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Danchev, Dancho (11 October 2013). "Novice cyberciminals offer commercial access to five mini botnets". Webroot. Archived from the original on 1 July 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
"Botnets: Definition, Types, How They Work". Crowdstrike. Archived from the original on 10 January 2023. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
Wang, Ping (2010). "Peer-to-peer botnets". In Stamp, Mark; Stavroulakis, Peter (eds.). Handbook of Information and Communication Security. Springer. ISBN 9783642041174. Archived from the original on 22 June 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
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Teresa Dixon Murray (28 September 2012). "Banks can't prevent cyber attacks like those hitting PNC, Key, U.S. Bank this week". Cleveland.com. Archived from the original on 25 July 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
Arntz, Pieter (30 March 2016). "The Facts about Botnets". Malwarebytes Labs. Archived from the original on 17 July 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
"One of world's biggest botnets taken down, US says". 25 May 2024. Archived from the original on 30 May 2024. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
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Singel, Ryan (13 August 2009). "Hackers Use Twitter to Control Botnet". Wired. Archived from the original on 7 October 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
"First Twitter-controlled Android botnet discovered". 24 August 2016. Archived from the original on 3 July 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
Gallagher, Sean (3 October 2014). "Reddit-powered botnet infected thousands of Macs worldwide". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on 23 April 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
Cimpanu, Catalin (6 June 2017). "Russian State Hackers Use Britney Spears Instagram Posts to Control Malware". Bleeping Computer. Archived from the original on 8 June 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
Dorais-Joncas, Alexis (30 January 2013). "Walking through Win32/Jabberbot.A instant messaging C&C". Archived from the original on 2 June 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
Constantin, Lucian (25 July 2013). "Cybercriminals are using the Tor network to control their botnets". PC World. Archived from the original on 3 August 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
"Cisco ASA Botnet Traffic Filter Guide". Archived from the original on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
Berinato, Scott (November 2006). "Attack of the Bots". Wired. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014.
Norton, Quinn (1 January 2012). "Anonymous 101 Part Deux: Morals Triumph Over Lulz". Wired.com. Archived from the original on 2 February 2013. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
Peterson, Andrea (10 April 2015). "China deploys new weapon for online censorship in form of 'Great Cannon'". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 17 April 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
"Here's why massive website outages will continue happening". Vox. 24 October 2016. Archived from the original on 10 October 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
"Operation Aurora — The Command Structure". Damballa.com. Archived from the original on 11 June 2010. Retrieved 30 July 2010.
Edwards, Jim (27 November 2013). "This Is What It Looks Like When A Click-Fraud Botnet Secretly Controls Your Web Browser". Archived from the original on 23 July 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
FTC. "Social Media Bots and Deceptive Advertising" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 June 2024. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
Burt, Jeff. "Credential-stuffing attack on GM exposes car owners' data". www.theregister.com. Archived from the original on 31 July 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
Nichols, Shaun (24 June 2014). "Got a botnet? Thinking of using it to mine Bitcoin? Don't bother". Archived from the original on 14 September 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
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"Trojan horse, and Virus FAQ". DSLReports. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2011.
Many-to-Many Botnet Relationships Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Damballa, 8 June 2009.
"Uses of botnets | The Honeynet Project". www.honeynet.org. Archived from the original on 20 March 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
"What is phishing? - Definition from WhatIs.com". SearchSecurity. Archived from the original on 24 March 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
Aguilar, Mario (14 April 2015). "The Number of People Who Fall for Phishing Emails Is Staggering". Gizmodo. Archived from the original on 24 March 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
"DISCLOSURE: Detecting Botnet Command and Control Servers Through Large-Scale NetFlow Analysis" (PDF). Annual Computer Security Applications Conference. ACM. December 2012. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
"IRCHelp.org – Privacy on IRC". www.irchelp.org. Archived from the original on 22 June 2024. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
"Brute-Force Botnet Attacks Now Elude Volumetric Detection". DARKReading from Information Week. 19 December 2016. Archived from the original on 14 November 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
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García, S.; Grill, M.; Stiborek, J.; Zunino, A. (1 September 2014). "An empirical comparison of botnet detection methods". Computers & Security. 45: 100–123. doi:10.1016/j.cose.2014.05.011. hdl:11336/6772. ISSN 0167-4048. Archived from the original on 9 December 2022. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
Credeur, Mary. "Atlanta Business Chronicle, Staff Writer". bizjournals.com. Archived from the original on 22 March 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2002.
Mary Jane Credeur (22 July 2002). "EarthLink wins $25 million lawsuit against junk e-mailer". Archived from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
Paulson, L.D. (April 2006). "News Briefs: Hackers Strengthen Malicious Botnets by Shrinking Them" (PDF). Computer. 39 (4): 17–19. doi:10.1109/MC.2006.136. S2CID 10312905. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 November 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2013. The size of bot networks peaked in mid-2004, with many using more than 100,000 infected machines, according to Mark Sunner, chief technology officer at MessageLabs. The average botnet size is now about 20,000 computers, he said.
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"Storm Worm network shrinks to about one-tenth of its former size". Tech.Blorge.Com. 21 October 2007. Archived from the original on 24 December 2007. Retrieved 30 July 2010.
Chuck Miller (25 July 2008). "The Rustock botnet spams again". SC Magazine US. Archived from the original on 4 April 2016. Retrieved 30 July 2010.
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"Pushdo Botnet — New DDOS attacks on major web sites — Harry Waldron — IT Security". Msmvps.com. 2 February 2010. Archived from the original on 16 August 2010. Retrieved 30 July 2010.
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"How FBI, police busted massive botnet". theregister.co.uk. Archived from the original on 5 March 2010. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
"New Massive Botnet Twice the Size of Storm — Security/Perimeter". DarkReading. 7 April 2008. Archived from the original on 11 June 2016. Retrieved 30 July 2010.
"Calculating the Size of the Downadup Outbreak — F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab". F-secure.com. 16 January 2009. Archived from the original on 23 May 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
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"Botnet sics zombie soldiers on gimpy websites". The Register. 14 May 2008. Archived from the original on 11 May 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
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"Cómo detectar y borrar el rootkit TDL4 (TDSS/Alureon)". kasperskytienda.es. 3 July 2011. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
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"Discovered: Botnet Costing Display Advertisers over Six Million Dollars per Month". Spider.io. 19 March 2013. Archived from the original on 9 July 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
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welivesecurity.com

"First Twitter-controlled Android botnet discovered". 24 August 2016. Archived from the original on 3 July 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
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wired.com

Singel, Ryan (13 August 2009). "Hackers Use Twitter to Control Botnet". Wired. Archived from the original on 7 October 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
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