- DoSnet
Unreferenced date December 2007 A DoSnet Denial of service attack Denial of Service Computer network network is a type of botnet malware and mostly used as a term for malicious botnets while benevolent botnets often simply are referred to as botnets. Dosnets are used for Denial of service attack Distributed attack Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks which can be very devastating. They range in size from a couple of bots to a couple of thousand bots up to over a hundred thousand bots. Many dosbots use the Internet Relay Chat IRC protocol, but some use their own custom protocols. Some may use a decentralized Peer to peer P2P network. When IRC is used, the botmaster often has usermode tt i tt invisible and the channel often has mode tt psntk tt private, secret, and need password to join . Sometimes the network is hosted on a public IRC network, while more capable botmasters host the network on private servers. More advanced dosnets use technologies such as Transport Layer Security SSL connections and cryptography to prevent packet sniffing , data inspection, and analysis. The botmaster can use the bots to Packet information technology packet send a disruptive data flood to other computers or networks. He she can often also make them perform various other tasks, such as remotely fetching a new version of the bot software and updating themselves. Well known dosnet software includes Tribe Flood Network TFN2k , Stacheldraht , and Trinoo . There are dosnet hunters who find dosnets and analyze the bots and or the network in order to dismantle them. For example by discovering access to bots and commanding them to uninstall themselves if such a feature is present in the bot software, or to update themselves to a dud, or to download and execute some sort of cleaner. Advanced ... hat black hat hacker or just a mere script kiddie . Sometimes botmasters hijack bots from the dosnet ... commands to connect to the DoSnet. Fact date December 2008 Commands for the bot may use a prefix such as an exclamation ... more details
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