Botnets Can Prove Quite Unsafe

Authentication Company VeriSign has cautioned that botnets could become more unsafe and rampant in coming times

Recently, iDefence arm of VeriSign secretly raided on three forums to find out 25 bot headers providing their services.

They discovered that bot herders make use of several usual advertising tactics to lure people, from banner ads to forum marketing, and then charging nearly £45 for one day of botnet attacks which can capably take down applications and websites.

As per security experts, the business associated with botnets has been rising on the Web. Moreover, botnets are currently one of the primary sources of unlawful income on the Web administered by cybercriminals. Further, security experts opined that it is quite impractical to believe that criminals will surrender such an efficient technique.

Moreover, the security experts say that unidentified control of infected systems that are not dependent on their geographic location can be used to incite criminals which will boost the business of botnets by leaps and bounds. This can be done by targeting a cyber attack on one country's servers from systems situated in any other country.

In a shocking revelation, security experts informed that children will also be able to control botnets in future. VeriSign stated that the ability to control a network of infected systems depends on the amount of funds hackers could dispose off and not on whether they have knowhow of such activities.

Director of Intelligence at VeriSign iDefense, Rick Howard, stated that companies should be careful of the fact their important online services or applications can be attacked by a cyber crooks by renting services from the bot herders for exactly the same price as of a DVD or a memory stick, as per the news published by itpro.co.uk on May 24, 2010.

Further, Howard added that businesses and firms all around the globe should protect themselves against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, reported v3.co.uk on May 24, 2010.

Howard also claimed that the attacks may have become refined, but the criminals targeting businesses might still not. A company should not be susceptible to a criminal with a Web connection and a small amount of cash to spare.

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