While national and worldwide agencies wage a war against online crime through the criminal courts, Microsoft is finding success using civil suits to help crack down on botnets, arguably the most dangerous form of cybercrime due to the massive scope of their reach. Through botnets, which are groupings of computers that attempt to harvest personal… Continue reading Microsoft finding success in “neighborhood watch” against botnets
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As internet criminal activity decreases, botnets skyrocket
Everyone has heard of hackers, viruses, and spam. What fewer people have heard of or understand are botnets despite statistics that show they’re trending to be the choice of current cybercriminals. By using “Command-and-Control” servers, hackers are able to remotely take over computers to execute their nefarious activities. Connecting through C&C servers allows a “bot… Continue reading As internet criminal activity decreases, botnets skyrocket