Príklady botnet

• Computer security experts warn that botnet programs are evolving faster than security firms can respond.

• It penalises the users of tools such as botnets for committing the offences, and introduces a higher level of sanctions for committing the offences.

• We have, in particular, included provisions to penalise the use of tools such as malicious code that are used to create so-called botnets, which have been used by criminals.

• Kraken botnet malware may have been designed to evade anti-virus software, and employed techniques to stymie conventional anti-virus software.

• Further, the botnet is able to look up alternate backup hosts, enabling the criminals operating it to reestablish control over the network.

• Peer-to-peer attacks are different from regular botnet-based attacks.

• This is the result of multiple compromised systems (for example a botnet) flooding the targeted system with traffic.

• This version of the botnet currently consists of an estimated 70,000 infected computers.

• Generally, the more vulnerabilities a bot can scan and propagate through, the more valuable it becomes to a botnet controller community.

• The suspect denied any such involvement in the botnet.

• Its peer-to-peer topology is also used to show fake messages to other users for the purpose of expanding the botnet.

• There is no sign of decline in the number of bots involved in the botnet.

• Spammers can rent an instance of the botnet for a fee, and use it to send their own spam campaigns.

• It then uses compromised computers to build a peer-to-peer botnet.

• However, some topologies limit the marketability of the botnet to third parties.

• Around the time of this crime, it was estimated that an average botnet was 20,000 computers in size.