Bots and botnets in 2018

guest · Mar 30, 2019

Bots and botnets in 2018
Statistics on botnet attacks on clients of organizations
March 29, 2019
https://securelist.com/bots-and-botnets-in-2018/90091/

Due to the wide media coverage of incidents involving Mirai and other specialized botnets, their activities have become largely associated with DDoS attacks. Yet this is merely the tip of the iceberg, and botnets are used widely not only to carry out DDoS attacks, but to steal various user information, including financial data.

The total number of unique attacks on clients of organizations registered by Botnet Monitoring technology in 2018 fell by 23.46% against the previous year (from 20 009 attacks in 2017 to 15 314 in 2018).

2018 saw a rise in botmasters’ interest in cryptocurrencies: The number of unique attacks on users linked to cryptocurrency services (exchanges, cryptocurrency wallets, etc.) increased, with their share more than tripling (up 4.95 p.p.) to 7.25%.

Trojan Banker BetaBot accounted for 13.25% of all unique attacks in 2018. [...]
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