Botnets and Cybersecurity

  1. Malicious Botnet Activities
    1. Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
      1. Volumetric Attacks
        1. UDP Floods
          1. ICMP Floods
            1. Amplification Attacks
              1. Bandwidth Exhaustion
              2. Protocol Attacks
                1. SYN Floods
                  1. TCP State Exhaustion
                    1. Fragmentation Attacks
                      1. Connection Exhaustion
                      2. Application Layer Attacks
                        1. HTTP Floods
                          1. Slowloris Attacks
                            1. Application-specific Exploits
                              1. Resource Exhaustion
                              2. Reflection and Amplification
                                1. DNS Amplification
                                  1. NTP Amplification
                                    1. SSDP Amplification
                                      1. Memcached Attacks
                                    2. Data Theft and Espionage
                                      1. Credential Harvesting
                                        1. Keystroke Logging
                                          1. Form Grabbing
                                            1. Browser Password Extraction
                                              1. Memory Scraping
                                              2. Sensitive Data Exfiltration
                                                1. Document Theft
                                                  1. Database Access
                                                    1. Email Harvesting
                                                      1. Intellectual Property Theft
                                                      2. Surveillance Capabilities
                                                        1. Screen Capture
                                                          1. Webcam Access
                                                            1. Microphone Recording
                                                              1. Location Tracking
                                                            2. Financial Crimes
                                                              1. Banking Trojans
                                                                1. Web Injection Attacks
                                                                  1. Transaction Manipulation
                                                                    1. Certificate Pinning Bypass
                                                                      1. Mobile Banking Attacks
                                                                      2. Ransomware Operations
                                                                        1. File Encryption
                                                                          1. System Lockdown
                                                                            1. Payment Processing
                                                                              1. Data Destruction Threats
                                                                              2. Cryptocurrency Theft
                                                                                1. Wallet Compromise
                                                                                  1. Exchange Attacks
                                                                                    1. Mining Pool Hijacking
                                                                                      1. Private Key Extraction
                                                                                    2. Communication Abuse
                                                                                      1. Spam Distribution
                                                                                        1. Email Campaigns
                                                                                          1. SMS Spam
                                                                                            1. Instant Messaging Spam
                                                                                              1. Social Media Spam
                                                                                              2. Phishing Operations
                                                                                                1. Credential Phishing
                                                                                                  1. Financial Phishing
                                                                                                    1. Malware Distribution
                                                                                                      1. Social Engineering
                                                                                                    2. Resource Exploitation
                                                                                                      1. Cryptomining
                                                                                                        1. CPU Mining
                                                                                                          1. GPU Mining
                                                                                                            1. ASIC Mining
                                                                                                              1. Pool Mining
                                                                                                              2. Click Fraud
                                                                                                                1. Ad Click Automation
                                                                                                                  1. Impression Fraud
                                                                                                                    1. Conversion Fraud
                                                                                                                      1. Revenue Generation
                                                                                                                      2. Proxy Services
                                                                                                                        1. Traffic Anonymization
                                                                                                                          1. Content Hosting
                                                                                                                            1. Geo-location Spoofing
                                                                                                                              1. Bandwidth Reselling

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