FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -Botnets. Botnets are the millions of systems infected with malware under hacker control in order to carry out DDoS attacks. These bots or zombie systems are used to carry out attacks against the target systems, often overwhelming the target system’s bandwidth and processing capabilities.

Detailed explanation-2: -Bots. A bot is a self-replicating malware that spreads itself to other devices, creating a network of bots, or a botnet. Once infected, devices perform automated tasks commanded by the attacker. Botnets are often used in DDoS attacks.

Detailed explanation-3: -Botnets are commonly used to send spam emails, engage in click fraud campaigns and generate malicious traffic for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

Detailed explanation-4: -A botnet (short for “robot network”) is a network of computers infected by malware that are under the control of a single attacking party, known as the “bot-herder.” Each individual machine under the control of the bot-herder is known as a bot.

Detailed explanation-5: -DDoS Attacks as a Service Distributed Denial of Service attacks are easily launched using botnets and, as with botnet generated spam, the distributed nature of the bots makes it difficult to filter out DDoS traffic. Botnets can execute any kind of DDoS attack and even launch multiple attack types simultaneously.