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Day: January 12, 2017

The Rise of Botnets

The year 2016 was certainly notable for Locky and the rise of ransomware, but these last months our attention has been drawn to a fundamental element of the underlying criminal cyber infrastructure — botnets.  In July, major attacks using LizardStresser, a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet using IoT devices, were launched