Bot and Botnet

Bot

A program that can do things without the user of the computer having to give it instructions. Many bots are malware as they are installed without people's permission and can be controlled over the internet and used to send spam or steal data. Also known as web robots.

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)

An attack that uses multiple zombie computers (even hundreds or thousands) in a botnet to flood a device with requests.

command and control server

Computer or server being used by the botmaster to coordinate the attack

How to get a Bot

Through a trojan, vulnerability, or though a normal application.

True or False - DDoS can be sold to 3rd parties as a service

True - Distributed Denial of Service as a Service

distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack

a denial-of-service attack that sends a flood of data packets from many compromised computers simultaneously

Botnet

a group of compromised computers or mobile devices connected to a network