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:"Commonly used for DDoS attacks, attackers also make use of the botnets’ collective power to scale attacks such as spamming, credential compromise, delivering malware or cryptocurrency mining.  
:"Commonly used for DDoS attacks, attackers also make use of the botnets’ collective power to scale attacks such as spamming, credential compromise, delivering malware or cryptocurrency mining.  


"Nowadays, botnets seem to focus more and more on ransomware and not on fraud related activities."
:"Nowadays, botnets seem to focus more and more on ransomware and not on fraud related activities."


''Payments Threats and Fraud Trends - European Payments Council - 2021.''
:''Payments Threats and Fraud Trends - European Payments Council - 2021.''




==See also==
==See also==
*[[Advanced Persistent Threat]]
*[[Advanced Persistent Threat]]
*[[Council to Secure the Digital Economy]]
*[[Council to Secure the Digital Economy]] (CSDE)
*[[Credential compromise]]
*[[Credential compromise]]
*[[Cyber security]]
*[[Cyber security]]
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*[[European Payments Council]]
*[[European Payments Council]]
*[[Malware]]
*[[Malware]]
*[[Network]]
*[[Ransomware]]
*[[Ransomware]]
*[[Robotics]]
*[[Robotics]]

Latest revision as of 00:44, 27 January 2022

Cybercrime - cyberthreat.

The word 'botnet' is a combination of 'robot' and 'network'.

Botnets are a collection of internet-connected devices compromised by an attacker, without the knowledge of the victim.


Malicious activity through botnets
"Commonly used for DDoS attacks, attackers also make use of the botnets’ collective power to scale attacks such as spamming, credential compromise, delivering malware or cryptocurrency mining.
"Nowadays, botnets seem to focus more and more on ransomware and not on fraud related activities."
Payments Threats and Fraud Trends - European Payments Council - 2021.


See also


External link