Botnets are businesses that bring tens of billions dollars in revenue per year. It is not hard to imagine that these threats don...

Botmasters are generally known for their laziness. As long as the current methods keep working, there would be little motivation for develop innovative malware. This is the very reason most botnets stuck to IRC channels long after they have become obsolete in favor of the more...

As compared to the PC viruses and worms, botnets are recently new threats to the IT landscape....

Command and control are essential steps tin maintaining an operational botnet, but at the same time, they are the weakest link of the system....

Botmasters usually don...

Now that we have seen what bots are able to do as individual entities, let...

Bots are highly specialized tools that can perform multiple tasks for their masters. However, they all share a common set of essential features. The common features might be implemented with various names on miscellaneous bots, but they ultimately have the same destructive potential....

Although most bots come with identical feature sets, and usually inflict severe damage to the host computer, there are multiple types of bots that differ in both complexity and operation....

Connectivity is a critical aspect when it comes to botnets....

Modern botnets are using social engineering tactics to trick the user into unwillingly installing malicious code on their computer....