Are You Aware of Botnets on Your Network? Billings MT

For many organizations the threat of a botnet operating within their organization is indistinguishable from any kind of malware that has the ability to propagate from one host to another. Unfortunately that lack of understanding can have disastrous consequences for the business.

While the technical line of differentiation between a self-propagating worm and a semi-autonomous bot agent is somewhat blurred, the difference between the threat lies with the modus operandi of the people behind the attack. Self-propagating worms are noisy and can cause immediate damage to the network – as evidenced by inoperable infected hosts and the spewing of unwanted network traffic – but they have predictable infection patterns and are often easy to combat once you know what you’re looking for. Their creators are normally looking to cause some kind of damage or have an immediate return on their ‘investment’ – whether that is media attention or acting as an infection vector for botnet incorporation.

The malware typically used for building botnet...

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