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. Bibcode:2018IPCom..17c..12M. doi:10.1109/MPRV.2018.03367731. S2CID 13677639.

arstechnica.com (Global: 473^rd place; English: 338^th place)

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.

arxiv.org (Global: 49^th place; English: 31^st place)

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. Bibcode:2018IPCom..17c..12M. doi:10.1109/MPRV.2018.03367731. S2CID 13677639.

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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 (Global: 7,223^rd place; English: 4,408^th place)

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.

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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.

businessinsider.com (Global: 201^st place; English: 139^th place)

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 (Global: 1,459^th place; English: 803^rd place)

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 (Global: 5,047^th place; English: 3,553^rd place)

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

cleveland.com (Global: 700^th place; English: 346^th place)

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.

cobalt.io (Global: low place; English: low place)

"FBI Dismantles World's Largest Botnet: 911 S5 Botnet". www.cobalt.io. Retrieved 20 October 2025.

computer.org (Global: 6,549^th place; English: 4,616^th place)

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 (Global: 3,446^th place; English: 2,279^th place)

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 (Global: low place; English: low place)

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

damballa.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

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darkreading.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Brute-Force Botnet Attacks Now Elude Volumetric Detection". Dark Reading. DARKReading from Information Week. 19 December 2016. Archived from the original on 14 November 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
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doi.org (Global: 2^nd place; English: 2^nd place)

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. Bibcode:2018IPCom..17c..12M. 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.
Ogu, Emmanuel C.; Ojesanmi, Olusegun A.; Awodele, Oludele; Kuyoro, ‘Shade (2019). "A Botnets Circumspection: The Current Threat Landscape, and What We Know So Far". Information. 10 (11): 337. doi:10.3390/info10110337.

dslreports.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

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eweek.com (Global: 8,041^st place; English: 5,594^th place)

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

f-secure.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"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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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 (Global: 4,627^th place; English: 2,648^th place)

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

garwarner.blogspot.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

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 (Global: 763^rd place; English: 486^th place)

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 (Global: low place; English: low place)

"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.

honeynet.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

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

ic3.gov (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) | Home Internet Connected Devices Facilitate Criminal Activity". www.ic3.gov. Retrieved 20 October 2025.

infoaleph.wordpress.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

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irchelp.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

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justice.gov (Global: 884^th place; English: 477^th place)

"Office of Public Affairs | Prosecuting the Sale of Botnets and Malicious Software". www.justice.gov. 18 March 2015. Retrieved 20 October 2025.

malwarebytes.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

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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 (Global: low place; English: low place)

"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.

msn.com (Global: 188^th place; English: 215^th place)

McMillan, Robert. "Oregon Man Accused of Operating One of Most Powerful Attack 'Botnets' Ever Seen". MSN.com. Retrieved 21 August 2025.

networkworld.com (Global: 5,743^rd place; English: 3,776^th place)

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

nytimes.com (Global: 7^th place; English: 7^th place)

gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com

Furchgott, Roy (14 August 2009). "Phone Hacking Threat Is Low, but it Exists". Gadgetwise Blog. New York Times. Archived from the original on 16 July 2017. Retrieved 16 July 2017.

pcworld.com (Global: 1,889^th place; English: 1,323^rd place)

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.
Tom Spring (20 June 2005). "Spam Slayer: Slaying Spam-Spewing Zombie PCs". PC World. Archived from the original on 16 July 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
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.

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psu.edu (Global: 299^th place; English: 159^th place)

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BotSniffer: Detecting Botnet Command and Control Channels in Network Traffic. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. 2008. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.110.8092. {{cite conference}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |citeseerx= (help)

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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.

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semanticscholar.org (Global: 15^th place; English: 8^th place)

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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. Bibcode:2018IPCom..17c..12M. 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 (Global: 707^th place; English: 398^th place)

judiciary.senate.gov

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spider.io (Global: low place; English: low place)

"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 (Global: low place; English: low place)

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techradar.com (Global: 1,513^th place; English: 964^th place)

Fadilpašić, Sead (30 January 2026). "The biggest DDoS attack ever has been detected - but fortunately you probably barely noticed it". TechRadar Pro. Retrieved 9 February 2026. The majority of the Aisuru attacks usually last between one and two minutes and peak between 1-5Tbps. The majority (94%) ranged between 1-5 billion packets per second. Aisuru is currently one of the largest and most dangerous botnets out there, counting hundreds of thousands of home routers, smart cameras, DVR systems, and other consumer gear.

techtarget.com (Global: 3,908^th place; English: 3,051^st place)

searchsecurity.techtarget.com

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theregister.co.uk (Global: 1,877^th place; English: 1,233^rd place)

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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ucsb.edu (Global: 1,099^th place; English: 630^th place)

cs.ucsb.edu

"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.

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vox.com (Global: 697^th place; English: 420^th place)

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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.
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"Operation Aurora — The Command Structure". Damballa.com. Archived from the original on 11 June 2010. Retrieved 30 July 2010.
Tom Spring (20 June 2005). "Spam Slayer: Slaying Spam-Spewing Zombie PCs". PC World. Archived from the original on 16 July 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
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.
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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.
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"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". Dark Reading. DARKReading from Information Week. 19 December 2016. Archived from the original on 14 November 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
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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.
Cuevas, Alejandro (18 February 2015). "Botnets: Zombies, Spam, and Attacks". Archived from the original on 12 June 2015.
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.
"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.
Stewart, Joe (13 January 2009). "Spam Botnets to Watch in 2009". Secureworks.com. SecureWorks. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
"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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webroot.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

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welivesecurity.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

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wired.com (Global: 254^th place; English: 178^th place)

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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.
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Berinato, Scott (November 2006). "Attack of the Bots". Wired. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014.

zdnet.com (Global: 1,235^th place; English: 855^th place)

Osborne, Charlie. "Hammertoss: Russian hackers target the cloud, Twitter, GitHub in malware spread". ZDNet. Archived from the original on 18 February 2017. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
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zeltser.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

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