![What are botnets?
A botnet is a number of Internet-connected devices, each of which is
running one or more bots. Botnets can be used to perform
distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack), steal data, send
spam, and allow the attacker access to the device and its connection.
The owner can control the botnet using command and control (C&C)
software.[2] The word "botnet" is a combination of the words "robot"
and "network". The term is usually used with a negative or malicious
connotation.
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How spam change the world
- 1. How spam change the world? Farhaan Bukhsh
- 2. What is Security? Security refers to freedom from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercive change) from external forces. Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be persons and social groups, objects and institutions, ecosystems, and any other entity or phenomenon vulnerable to unwanted change by its environment. - Wikipedia
- 3. Well, now you can relate to Cyber security? Basically security of all your digital devices and information.
- 4. Who are Hackers and what is Hacking ? In computing, a hacker is any skilled computer expert that uses their technical knowledge to overcome a problem. While "hacker" can refer to any skilled computer programmer, the term has become associated in popular culture with a "security hacker", someone who, with their technical knowledge, uses bugs or exploits to break into computer systems. - Wikipedia
- 5. Now, since things are clear let’s come to the real question. What is spam?
- 6. Spam is ... Spam is sort of shorthand for cybercrime. You can’t get cybercrime done these days hardly without spam. Look at some of the biggest data breaches that have leaked out over the past year: Target, Home Depot—well, we still haven’t really heard how Home Depot went down—J.P. Morgan, and a lot of these big ones started with a malicious email. Most people think about annoying ads when they think about spam, but malware is primarily disseminated through spam. So it’s still a huge vector for a ridiculous amount of cybercrime that gets perpetrated each day. - Brian Krebs
- 7. What is in there for spammers? 1. Money 2. Reputation 3. Sometimes Life
- 8. Meet the Spammers! The best place to find out: Spamhaus - https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/spammers/
- 9. What are botnets? A botnet is a number of Internet-connected devices, each of which is running one or more bots. Botnets can be used to perform distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack), steal data, send spam, and allow the attacker access to the device and its connection. The owner can control the botnet using command and control (C&C) software.[2] The word "botnet" is a combination of the words "robot" and "network". The term is usually used with a negative or malicious connotation. - One and Only - Wikipedia
- 10. How are botnets used? 1. Carrying out DDoS attack 2. Sending out spams 3. Getting more machines in the botnets 4. Creating more and more of Zombie Computers
- 11. The ANTIS ANTIS are companies who tried to stand against the spammer and tries to spam them. This can not be completely stopped but can only be prevented. “Blue Frogs” of “Blue Security” - A curious case of spammer winning the battle.
- 12. Bulletproof Hosting A botnet is a number of Internet-connected devices, each of which is running one or more bots. Botnets can be used to perform distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack), steal data, send spam, and allow the attacker access to the device and its connection. The owner can control the botnet using command and control (C&C) software. The word "botnet" is a combination of the words "robot" and "network". The term is usually used with a negative or malicious connotation. - Wikipedia
- 13. How does spam affects economy? Spammers buy penny stocks and play the game of pump and dump. (Rings a bell?)
- 14. How they fool people to buy into them? There comes our amazing friend - Black SEO Black SEO is a way of injecting the malicious link in top ranking sites to make the link look legitimate.
- 15. Pharma Wars 1. What is Pharma Wars? 2. What happened ? 3. How it ended?
- 16. How can spam keep affecting us? 1. ICO 2. Cryptocurrency 3. Bank Frauds 4. Identity Theft
- 18. Farhaan Bukhsh Email: farhaan@fedoraproject.org Twitter: @fhackdroid