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bot mast

nounid 1697·updated May 9, 2026
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The controller of a botnet that, from a remote location, provides direction to the compromised computers in the botnet.

MWE

Classifications

Entity Type

Threat92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
bot herder
plural
bot masts
possessive
bot mast's
pluralpossessive
bot masts'

Framework definitions

National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon1 senseview framework →
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The controller of a botnet that, from a remote location, provides direction to the compromised computers in the botnet.

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Incoming relationships

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