Technique
technique:botnet
Also: botnets
Network of computers controlled without ownership or permission and used to perform attacks.
Use of programs running on many unauthorized computers together to perform a common task.
“A botnet is a program running on many computers that are all working together to do the same task”
Network of computers controlled without ownership or permission and used to perform attacks.
“a botnet is a large group of computers that you control but you don’t own”
“I was trying to build one myself”
Use of many compromised computers under centralized control to route attacks through third-party systems.
“they decided they needed to build a botnet”
“to route their attacks through it”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| incoming | ASSOCIATED_WITH | Carna Botnet | Explicit | 13 |
| incoming | USES | Electronik Tribulation Army | Explicit | 70 |
| incoming | USES | Rxbot | Derived | 70 |
| incoming | USES | AnonSec | Explicit | 139 |
| incoming | USES | Default | Explicit | 139 |
Carna Botnet ASSOCIATED_WITH botnet
The researcher’s program was described as a botnet: software running on many unauthorized computers to perform a common task.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 13 Details
“They were creating a botnet. A botnet is a program running on many computers that are all working together to do the same task”
Electronik Tribulation Army USES botnet
The episode describes ETA and Ghost Exodus as developing and using botnets.
Explicit Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 70 Details
“Ghost Exodus also had an interest in computers”
“He started playing around with botnets”
Rxbot is described as the botnet used to add compromised computers to Ghost Exodus's botnet.
Derived Confidence 94% · Jack Rhysider EP 70 Details
“The botnet he was using was called Rxbot.”
AnonSec built a botnet to route its attacks through compromised computers rather than directly from members.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 139 Details
“they decided they needed to build a botnet”
Default says he connected through his botnet when conducting activity online.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Default EP 139 Details
“I’m connecting through Tor nodes and my botnet”