Botnets: A survey

By S. Silva, R. M. Silva, R. Pinto, R. Salles. Comput. Networks, 2013

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Explainable Artificial Intelligence Applications in Cyber Security: State-of-the-Art in Research (2022, background): “3) BOTNET A botnet attack is known as a group of connected computers working together to carry out harmful and repetitive actions to corrupt and disrupt the resources of a victim, such as crashing websites [175].”
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks in Cloud Computing Environments: A Survey, Some Research Issues, and Challenges (2016, background): “DDoS attacks are sent by two or more persons, or bots [16], while DoS attacks are sent by one person or system.”
Towards the Development of Realistic Botnet Dataset in the Internet of Things for Network Forensic Analytics: Bot-IoT Dataset (2018, methodology): “By using the C&C a botmaster issues commands to the rest of the botnet and is capable of receiving feedback regarding attacks in progress or even stolen data [12, 13].”
Understanding the Mirai Botnet (2017, result): “This is similar in scale to historical botnets such as the prolific Srizbi spam botnet (400,000 bots [83]), which was responsible for more than half of all global botnet spam [35], and the Carna botnet (420,000 bots [38]), the first botnet of IoT devices compromised using default credentials.”