A Survey on Botnets: Incentives, Evolution, Detection and Current Trends
Botnets, groups of malware-infected hosts controlled by malicious actors, have gained prominence in an era of pervasive computing and the Internet of Things. Botnets have shown a capacity to perform substantial damage through distributed denial-of-service attacks, information theft, spam and malware...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2021-07-01
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| Series: | Future Internet |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/8/198 |