How to Use botnet in a Sentence

botnet

noun

• The botnet runs the miner with (at most) one argument that tells it to print its logs.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2024
• Vosoughi agrees that his paper cannot whether the use of botnets changed at the end of the sample period.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2018
• In their labs, the police could then test how certain hacks would disrupt the botnet.
  — Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 5 June 2021
• The infamous botnet known as Trickbot got a taste of itss own medicine last week.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2020
• Necurs first appeared in 2012 and is one of the largest and longest-running botnets around today.
  — Lucian Constantin, PCWorld, 12 May 2017
• The Emotet botnet is one of the most effective email malware campaigns around.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2020
• The team also claims that many hacker forums are giving the botnet away for free.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 9 Nov. 2022
• The zLabs team says that the Keksec malware group is responsible for the Cloud9 botnet.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 9 Nov. 2022
• The blows kept the TrickBot operators scrambling to keep the botnet alive.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2020
• With nowhere to go for instructions, the botnet is rendered useless.
  — Barath Raghavan, Wired, 9 Mar. 2021
• Twitter botnets are having to adapt their behavior in the wake of the platform’s crackdown.
  — Jon Porter, The Verge, 19 Oct. 2018
• Both men set up Google email accounts on the same IP address used by a server that sent commands to the botnet, Google said in its court filing.
  — Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2021
• The past decade has recorded many botnet cyber-attacks.
  — Chuck Brooks, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
• But taking down a botnet, the company concluded, was not a work-from-home task.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• The court order goes on to suggest the FBI developed a way to hijack the botnet, and identify the infected routers.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 31 Jan. 2024
• OpenAI had not responded to a request for comment about the botnet by time of posting.
  — Will Knight, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2023
• In other cases, hackers used the botnet to spread malware and phishing emails to victims.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 17 June 2022
• The botnet then used that pilfered information to send links to friends of the infected person.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 May 2018
• The botnet is said in government court filings to be under the control of the Russian hackers known as the Sofacy Group.
  — David Shortell, CNN, 24 May 2018
• The worm would infect devices and add them to a botnet that would continue looking for devices to infect.
  — Alyssa Newcomb, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2020
• Mirai and other IoT botnets have been a fact of Internet life ever since.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 22 Nov. 2023
• The botnet was available on the open internet, ostensibly as a proxy server from a provider named RSocks.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 17 June 2022
• Putting it plainly, this botnet was, on average, 4,000 times stronger due to its use of virtual machines and servers.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 15 June 2022
• In recent weeks, U.S. Cyber Command also launched a campaign against the botnet.
  — Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2020
• Using that same malware, Bogachev also created one of the largest botnets in 2011, known as GameoverZeus.
  — Jack Detsch, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2017
• The botnet has targeted over 300 banks worldwide and has evolved beyond a banking Trojan, Walsh said.
  — Kartikay Mehrotra, Bloomberg.com, 12 Oct. 2020
• Given the large amounts of bandwidth available to many such devices, the floods of junk traffic are often huge, giving the botnet as a whole tremendous power.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2024
• Plus: The ransomware scourge continues, a massive botnet gets wounded, and more of the week’s top security news.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 25 Sep. 2021
• Operation Endgame, the name Europol gave to the takedown effort, is the largest operation to ever target botnets, the officials said.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 May 2024
• Microsoft has filed more than two dozen lawsuits since 2008 with a focus on securing court permission to dismantle botnets and other hacking tools.
  — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024