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2013 CHECK POINT ANNUAL SECURITY REPORT
02 _ THREATS TO YOUR ORGANIZATION
BOTNET ACTIVITIES
Send Out
Spam Email
Messages
Attack
Computers
and Servers
Steal Data
Distribute
Malicious
Software
Spread
Viruses
ignorant of these activities. Bots also play a key role in
targeted APT attacks.
There are two major trends in today‘s threat landscape that
are driven by bot attacks. The first trend is the growing
profit-driven cybercrime industry - this industry includes
cybercriminals, malware operators, tool providers, coders,
and affiliate programs. Their “products“ can be easily
ordered online from numerous sites (for example, do-
it-yourself malware kits, spam sending, data theft, and
Denial of Service attacks) and organizations are finding
it difficult to fight off these attacks. The second trend is
ideological and state driven attacks that target people or
organizations to promote a political cause or carry out a
cyber-warfare campaign.
Botnets are here to stay. As opposed to viruses and other
traditional static malwares (which code and form remain
the same), botnets by nature are dynamic and can quickly
change form and traffic patterns. Bot toolkits are sold