PC Magazine - Security Watch: A Peek At The Future Of Botnet Evolution

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Mar 29, 2013
By Jamie Cifuentes

Botnets weren't always malicious. According to a report by Symantec called The Evolution of IRC Bots, botnets were originally designed to automate basic tasks on IRC and allowed IRC operators to link instances of the bot together and manage its power. Eventually, botnets were used to perform DoS attacks and other malicious activities as computer users realized the potential collective power botnets had.

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