Botnet

The relevance of the study is based on the events surrounding the 2018 referendum on the change to the country's name.

Hundreds of thousands of home routers, IP cameras and other internet-of-things devices have been infected with malware over the past year and have been used to launch some of the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks ever recorded.

The “accidental hero” who halted the global spread of an unprecedented ransomware attack by registering a garbled domain name hidden in the malware has warned the attack could be rebooted.

Massive collections of fake accounts are lying dormant on Twitter, suggests research.
The largest network ties together more than 350,000 accounts and further work suggests others may be even bigger.
UK researchers accidentally uncovered the lurking networks while probing Twitter to see how people use it.

Cyber attacks pounded the underpinnings of the internet on Oct. 21, crippling Twitter, Netflix and other major websites with the help of once-dumb devices made smart with online connections.

Waves of attacks incapacitated a crucial piece of internet infrastructure, hampering or outright blocking access to popular online venues.

"The two greatest tools of our time have been turned into government surveillance tools. I'm talking about the mobile phone and the Internet. George Orwell was an optimist."

BELGRADE - The police are working on identifying the persons who disabled the Pescanik website, and the results are expected to arrive these days, Police Director Milorad Veljovic stated on Wednesday.

He told reporters that the police are close to discovering where the attack on this website came from.

Peščanik website "came under DDoS attack"

BELGRADE -- The website Peščanik.net was attacked "from thousands of IP addresses around the world in order to bring it down," the daily Danas says.

The Belgrade-based newspaper said it was citing police sources.