Inside the Latest & Huge Cyberattack (March 2013) - The Reason Behind the Slow Internet on 28 March 2013

The latest Attack a DDOS Based attack but attackers used late 2003 method of botnets used by Indian Snakes - Yaha-Q mail malware based DDOS attacks

A cyber attack which was executed targeting a single company is now being described by experts as one of the biggest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in Internet history. The attack, which recently began impacting elements of the Internet's physical infrastructure, has been dragging down Internet speeds in the World - but what makes this type of attack different from all other recent attacks ?

Botnets - Detail Introduction

A botnet or robot network is a group of computers running a computer application controlled and manipulated only by the owner or the software source. The botnet may refer to a legitimate network of several computers that share program processing amongst them.

 

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Usually though, when people talk about botnets, they are talking about a group of computers infected with the malicious kind of robot software, the bots, which present a security threat to the computer owner. Once the robot software (also known as malicious software or malware) has been successfully installed in a computer, this computer becomes a zombie or a drone, unable to resist the commands of the bot commander.