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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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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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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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Necurs first appeared in 2012 and is one of the largest and longest-running botnets around today.
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With the rise of smart Internet of Things devices such as security cameras, thermostats, routers and even refrigerators, these botnets can all-too-easily be created and deployed.
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These botnets, or robot networks, are increasingly being deployed to attack networks and systems.
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The order also hopes to expand America’s cyber workforce and engage the private sector in protecting against botnets, or remote networks of private computers controlled by cybercriminals.
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