How to defend yourself against unethical bot traffic?
There has been a lot of advancements in the bot realm, resulting in an increase in bad bots. Web app developers have to spend a lot of time defending their sites against user session attacks. Depending on the application and user session, web app developers are often wondering whether or not it’s simply one of […]
Why botnet and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have become a more common occurrence?
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have been a big problem for years, but they seem to happen every day now. Groups like lone hackers, criminal gangs and hacktivists often use a variety of techniques to carry out these attacks and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight at this rate. The goal […]
The largest HTTPS DDoS attack recently mitigated by Cloudflare was started by the Mantis botnet
Mantis is the most powerful botnet to date and is considered a serious threat. Mantis has a wide range of capabilities such as spamming, denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, mining cryptocurrencies and more. It is estimated that this botnet has generated $140 million in revenue for its operators. Last month in June, Cloudflare reported on the largest […]
How a computer can be infected and be part of a DDoS botnet
In computer use, a zombie is a computer connected to a network that has been compromised by a virus, virus, or Trojan. It can be used remotely for malicious activities. Most owners of zombie computers do not realize that their system is used in this way, which is why they are compared to the living […]
BOT ATTACK: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
WHAT IS A BOTNET ATTACK? A botnet attack is a cyber-attack by Internet-connected devices controlled by a malicious character. The botnets themselves are four devices. When cybercriminals create malware on a network to control it as a group, they often launch cyber attacks. Botnet attacks can be used to send spam, steal data, compromise confidential […]
