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Renting a Zombie Farm: Botnets and the Hacker Economy

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The Underground Economy, Pt. 8

The most recent major data breach stealing 1.2 billion usernames and passwords was orchestrated using a botnet, a robot network of "zombie" computers, which, by being infected with malware, can be controlled by a master server. We take a deeper look at how botnets are used in the "underground" and how to mitigate the risk of infection to machines in your network.


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