Botnet
nounid
1698·updated May 9, 2026verified
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
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Classifications
Entity Type
Threat90%rule-basedr:entity.threat.attack.v1
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- plural
- Botnets
- possessive
- Botnet's
- pluralpossessive
- Botnets'
Framework definitions
- §1
- A botnet is a large number of compromised computers that are used to create and send spam or viruses or flood a network with messages as a denial of service attack.
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon1 senseview framework →
- §1
- A collection of computers compromised by malicious code and controlled across a network.
- §1
- 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
- §1 · legacy_primary
- 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 victimsDR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
Outgoing relationships
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Incoming relationships
- related