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One recent botnet aimed at the company appeared to be coming from thousands of Russian routers, Neino said.
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Meanwhile, the fire hose of botnets and malware gushing through the Internet these days leaves victims feeling helpless.
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Using that same malware, Bogachev also created one of the largest botnets in 2011, known as GameoverZeus.
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US law-enforcement officials, in tandem with authorities from 10 other countries, were eventually able to take down the botnet, and charged Bogachev with computer hacking, bank fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering.
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A group of Russian hackers — possibly working at the behest of the Russian government — has been distributing a malicious Firefox extension, which can draft compromised computers into a botnet.
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The website's usual users, Turla reasoned, would download and install the innocuous-sounding extension, then become part of Turla's botnet.
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The botnet known as Mirai knocked a swath of major sites off the web last September, including Spotify, Reddit, and the New York Times.
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Like Locky and Bart, Jaff is distributed via malicious spam emails sent by the Necurs botnet, according to researchers from Malwarebytes.
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