When you think botnet, your first response is to associate them withthe usual menu of attacks such as spam generation, denial of serviceattacks (DoS), worms, Trojans, or phishing. There are many articlesthat detail typical botnet usage including illegally installing adwareor spyware (attackers get paid on a per-install basis), hostingfraudulent banking Websites, and extortion (attackers can eitherthreaten to unleash a DoS on a company’s Website unless a ransom ispaid or hold a company’s files hostage and threaten to destroy them).
A botnet is typically a network of hijacked computers used toconduct attacks, usually for personal gain. One of the advantages of abotnet is that it can be used in a distributed computing attack. Alarge problem can be broken up into smaller, more manageable parts anddistributed to many computers where they work on the problem inparallel. Distributing the workload to many computers is a veryeffective and dangerous way of mounting attacks. And since...
