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botnet

/bot-net/US // ˈbɒtˌnɛt //UK // (ˈbɒtˌnɛt) //

僵尸网络,僵尸网

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Computers.

    • : a network of computers created by malware and controlled remotely, without the knowledge of the users of those computers: The botnet was used primarily to send spam emails.Hackers built the botnet to carry out DDoS attacks.

Examples

  • The company said that the attackers are physically located in China and often rely on botnets made up of routers or other types of IoT devices.

  • Zero Day Clothing has some excellent t-shirts and other clothing for your hacker or security-minded friends, from celebrating Diffie-Hellman encryption, fearing the botnet or designing your own — there’s something for everyone.

  • Trickbot operators sell access to their vast number of infected machines to other criminals, who use the botnet to spread bank trojans, ransomware, and a host of other malicious software.

  • Along with other development choices, this leads us to believe that the botnet is used as a proxy network, potentially offered as an anonymization service.

  • We’re sure that they are going to notice and it will be hard for them to get back to the state that the botnet was in.

  • The attacks are often coordinated by a botnet, a web of compromised computers acting at the whim of the hackers behind the attack.

  • The attack was accomplished by means of a botnet, and for that I felt bad, but it was in the service of a good cause.

  • There are so many infected PCs on the Internet that the price of hiring an hour or two on a botnet has crashed.