The storm botnet was used for
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Storm Botnet
Explanation:
A botnet is group of computers that have been infected with a malicious computer program that effectively turn them into 'zombies' There is a Command and Control centre that is used to send instructions to the infected computers.
The storm botnet is a distributed denial of service engine DDoS, that is operated by criminals. The storm botnet can be used for cracking encryption keys, DDoS attacks, spamming, and phishing.
A botnet includes a number of computers connected together to do malicious works. Each computer in a botnet is called bot. Bot is actually a program which runs automatically in the internet. Bot actually needs high human effort to do it manually. So it is made to run automatically. Actually a bot includes an application which needs high effort and very much time consuming to perform. Bot is mainly used for malicious purposes, to launch attack etc.
Storm botnet is also called storm worm botnet. It is a remotely controlled network of zombie computers. Storm botnet can connect upto 50 million comouters together to do the work.
The storm botnet mainly targets computers which use microsoft operating system. When computer is affected by botnet, it is came to known as bot. Storm botnet are used to perform service attack, send spam, steal data from the computer, etc. Storm botnet is mainly used to perform DDos attack.
Actually the botnet is a very illegal program and conducting botnet is also illegal. Many good uses of botnet are there. But it is mostly used in the harmful way so it is considered a malware and illegal.
Explanation:
DDos: Distributed deniel of service attack.