Botnets are not a new security threat. They’ve been around for over a decade, but they continue to grow and prosper as the black market continues to find profitable uses for stolen computing power and network bandwidth. Botnets deliver most of the world’s spam, serve as the foot soldiers in distributed denial-of-service attacks, mine Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency, and perform many other tasks that are only profitable when taking advantage of stolen computing resources.

What botnet protection is

Botnets consume network bandwidth, slow down systems and jeopardize sensitive information stored on systems under their control. For these reasons, security professionals seek to protect their organizations against infiltration of botnets, just as they would protect against any other type of malicious software.

Published December 2017 in SearchSecurity.
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