Cyber Security Botnet Attacks: Procedures and Methods

The botnet, a collection of compromised computers, is one of the latest technologies
in the evolution of cybercrime. Cybercriminals, motivated by financial gain, use those
infected computers as an equipment of cybercrime. For example, botnets are used in
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) extortion scams, sending of spam, and running
arbitrary network services for phishing