Botnet

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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A term derived from robot network; is a large automated and distributed network of previously compromised computers that can be simultaneously controlled to launch large-scale attacks such as a denial-of-service attack on selected victims

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Threat90%rule-basedr:entity.threat.attack.v1

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Botnets
possessive: Botnet's
pluralpossessive: Botnets'

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