botnet

The operators behind the botnet are thought to have made millions of euros since they set it up in 2016 and are still on the run.

Botnet Detection Market Research Report, by Vertical (Government & Defense, IT & Telecommunications), by Organization Size (Large Enterprise, SMEs), by Application (Mobile-based, Web-based) by Deployment (On-Cloud, On-premise) - Global Forecast till 2023

The quarterly report, which unbiasedly evaluates thousands of worldwide DDoS attacks, attributes the dramatic rise to IoT botnets and Satori malware exploits, which is a variant of the notorious Mirai malware.

Do not let your network become part of the next global botnet attack.

Kaspersky Lab's researchers continuously monitor botnet

To reduce the risk of turning your devices into part of a botnet, users are advised to:

Although the overall number of DDoS attacks fell 12 percent compared to the same period last year, a new class of powerful botnets may appear from wider DNSSEC adoption.

The Ramnit botnet first appeared in 2011, but it was taken offline in 2015 by a European law enforcement operation.

Dark Cloud was first uncovered in 2016 and was reportedly (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/05/carding-sites-turn-to-the-dark-cloud/) created to host carding sites . However, the botnet has since expanded.

Akamai researchers have seen recent hacker activity turning to exploit remote code execution vulnerabilities in enterprise-level software to make enterprise systems part of the botnet threat.