īotnets are increasingly rented out by cyber criminals as commodities for a variety of purposes. The controller of a botnet is able to direct the activities of these compromised computers through communication channels formed by standards-based network protocols, such as IRC and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Each compromised device, known as a 'bot', is created when a device is penetrated by software from a malware (malicious software) distribution. Security information and event management (SIEM)Ī botnet is a logical collection of Internet-connected devices such as computers, smartphones or Internet of things (IoT) devices whose security have been breached and control ceded to a third party.Host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS).
