In this article, I am explaining about a botnet and it's types. So, Let's begin. A botnet is one of the most common and popular modern-day malware . A botnet is made of two words one is a bot, and another one is net. Firstly, let's talk about " bot " which is also called Zombie . A bot is an infected system that is under the control of an attacker without their owners' knowledge. The attacker used bot code (malware) to infect the system and after that as per the attacker's instructions bot code (malware) communicates with the attacker's server and performs a wide variety of malicious activities. And now let's talk about the " net " which means a network . So, Botnet means a network of bots (zombies) controlled by an attacker to perform a wide variety of malicious activities like Spamming, Phishing, Click Fraud, etc. That's why nowadays botnet is one of the most common and dangerous tools in the attacker's tool
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