botnet

noun

bot·net ˈbät-ˌnet

: a network of computers that have been linked together by malware : a network of bots (see bot entry 1 sense 2b)

Criminals link hijacked personal computers together to form "botnets"—clusters of infected PCs that spammers can control from anywhere in the world.—

Dave Mosher

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The Road Ahead As IoT devices become increasingly ubiquitous, the threat of large-scale botnets like Raptor Train will only grow. —

Shankar Somasundaram, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024 Tech giants such as Google long have had a playbook for destroying botnets like Glupteba. —

Paresh Dave, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2024 In this case, the botnet leveraged the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), which is designed to transfer data quickly, but can be exploited to create a large DDoS, also known as a UDP flood attack. —

Michael Kan, PCMAG, 2 Oct. 2024 Russia-state hackers have also been caught assembling large IoT botnets for the same purposes. —

Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for botnet