How to Use botnet in a Sentence

botnet

noun

• In their labs, the police could then test how certain hacks would disrupt the botnet.
  — Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 5 June 2021
• The botnet runs the miner with (at most) one argument that tells it to print its logs.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2024
• The team also claims that many hacker forums are giving the botnet away for free.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 9 Nov. 2022
• When one works, the device becomes part of a botnet used for future attacks.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 Dec. 2025
• The infamous botnet known as Trickbot got a taste of itss own medicine last week.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2020
• All of these factors combined can help prevent the rise of further botnets.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week Us, theweek, 3 June 2024
• Vosoughi agrees that his paper cannot whether the use of botnets changed at the end of the sample period.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2018
• With nowhere to go for instructions, the botnet is rendered useless.
  — Barath Raghavan, Wired, 9 Mar. 2021
• The orders for the botnet, therefore, came from this computer.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
• But taking down a botnet, the company concluded, was not a work-from-home task.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• The Emotet botnet is one of the most effective email malware campaigns around.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2020
• In other cases, hackers used the botnet to spread malware and phishing emails to victims.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 17 June 2022
• Twitter botnets are having to adapt their behavior in the wake of the platform’s crackdown.
  — Jon Porter, The Verge, 19 Oct. 2018
• And Mirai had an unwitting ally in the botnet war then raging.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
• The worm would infect devices and add them to a botnet that would continue looking for devices to infect.
  — Alyssa Newcomb, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2020
• So a botnet that harnesses video has enormous cannons at its disposal.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
• Necurs first appeared in 2012 and is one of the largest and longest-running botnets around today.
  — Lucian Constantin, PCWorld, 12 May 2017
• Tech giants such as Google long have had a playbook for destroying botnets like Glupteba.
  — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2024
• The blows kept the TrickBot operators scrambling to keep the botnet alive.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2020
• OpenAI had not responded to a request for comment about the botnet by time of posting.
  — Will Knight, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2023
• In effect, a compromise amounts to a limited backdoor that makes a device part of a limited botnet.
  — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 20 May 2026
• Mirai and other IoT botnets have been a fact of Internet life ever since.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 22 Nov. 2023
• Given the large amounts of bandwidth available to many such devices, the floods of junk traffic are often huge, giving the botnet as a whole tremendous power.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2024
• The actions to date are little more than whack-a-mole exercises as the operators simply replace their botnets with new ones.
  — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026
• The botnet was available on the open internet, ostensibly as a proxy server from a provider named RSocks.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 17 June 2022
• One recent botnet aimed at the company appeared to be coming from thousands of Russian routers, Neino said.
  — Jill Leovy, The Seattle Times, 7 July 2017
• Meanwhile, the fire hose of botnets and malware gushing through the Internet these days leaves victims feeling helpless.
  — Jill Leovy, latimes.com, 29 June 2017
• Aisuru's creators sell access to the botnet, mainly so buyers can attack game servers, including those used for Minecraft.
  — PC Magazine, 17 Nov. 2025
• Putting it plainly, this botnet was, on average, 4,000 times stronger due to its use of virtual machines and servers.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 15 June 2022
• The zLabs team says that the Keksec malware group is responsible for the Cloud9 botnet.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 9 Nov. 2022