North America is expected to emerge as the leading region in the
botnet detection market during the forecast period due to early adoption of advanced technologies such as the Internet of Things and cloud.
Botnets have a massive slowdown effect on the global Internet traffic.
Since H1 2017, the share of RAT files found among the malware distributed by
botnets almost doubled, rising from 6.55 percent to 12.22 percent.
However, the method does not clearly explain the process of P2P
botnet detection.
In fact, more than 2.53 million consumers in the UAE were victims of online crime in the past year, and bots and
botnets are a key tool in the cyber attacker's arsenal," commented Tamim Taufiq, head of Norton Middle East.
"It is imperative for everyone to be aware about this wide-spreading
botnet, which is the primary reason why this advisory has been issued," a notification issued by the government said.
Once the
botnet has a foothold in your organization, it will typically call home to the hacker's command and control (C and C) server to register its success and request further instructions.
Once you know a
botnet exists, you can attack its command-and-control system.
Speaking at the panel, Johannes Ulrich, Director of SANS Internet Storm Center, said that small IoT devices aren't powerful enough to generate strong encryption, which makes them susceptible to the Mirai
Botnet natured attacks.
IoT devices have already been hijacked for use in
botnets, notably the Mirai
botnet, used to attack Domain Name Server provider Dyn last year, which generated volumes of traffic reportedly reaching 1.2 Tbps.