Implementation of containment policies for Gateways to disarm real-time botnet attacks (P-0566) (MFN 3592)

Abstract

Hackers and their botnets are constantly rattling virtual doors looking for easy target/prey. A botnet is a group of machines infected by some Trojan horse. The Trojan horse has been coded in such a way that it infects other computers. These machines without the knowledge of its owners have been set up to forward transmissions to other computers on the Internet. Each such infected device is known as a bot or zombie and is created when a computer is penetrated by software from a malware distribution; otherwise known as malware. Criminals typically use bots to infect large numbers of computers and use botnets to send out spam email messages, spread viruses, attack computers and servers, and commit other kinds of crime and fraudulent activity.