asking that question and you're a software engineer? that's how you get botnets, bro

So many botnets and ai scrapers these days, that's the only way to keep the servers from getting overwhelmed.

no it’s to do with botnets streesers etc

First VPN operated 32 exit nodes across 27 countries — with 3 servers located inside the United States. At least 25 ransomware gangs used the service to hide their identities while carrying out attacks on businesses worldwide. Cybercriminals also used it to scan the internet, run botnets, launch denial-of-service attacks, and execute scams. One service. Global reach. Industrial-scale crime.

🚨 CYBER INTELLIGENCE REPORT: 🇺🇸🇧🇭🇱🇰 🇲🇽🇦🇷🇮🇱🇹🇼🇬🇧🇮🇳🇨🇳 [GLOBAL MONITORING] CONSOLIDATED THREAT SIGNALS [ISSUE DATE: JUNE 14, 2026] [STATUS: HIGH-IMPACT MONITORING / GEOPOLITICAL, FINANCIAL, AND CRITICAL SABOTAGE OPERATIONS] Thermal processing and flow structuring of 20 tactical signals intercepted in the last few hours have been completed. The situation reveals an aggressive escalation in the sabotage of critical infrastructure (fuels), leaks from government intelligence agencies in Latin America, and persistent extortion and denial-of-service activity globally. 🏭 1. CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND FINANCIAL SECTOR 🇺🇸 United States | Fuel Supply Sabotage (Case #14606): Actor: Infrastructure Destruction Squad. Vector: Alleged ransomware and encryption attack against fuel distribution systems in Ohio (specifically the Holtfield Station in Hillsboro). The group announced the start of processes to destroy and encrypt operating systems. 🇧🇭🧭 Middle East (Bahrain) | Banking Denial-of-Service Attacks (Case #14613): Actor: GORZ ROSTAM. Vector: Coordinated DDoS attack campaign against portals and financial institutions in the region, resulting in the downtime and verified disruption of servers belonging to entities such as Mashreq Bank (mashreq.com). 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | Compromise and Backdoor in Banking Link (Case #14612): Actor: BLACK MARKET 1337. Vector: Consolidation of the sale of persistent WebShell access and hardcoded persistence using GS-NetCat keys on the payroll and human resources server of the Sri Lanka Bankers Institute (ibsl.lk). 🇲🇽 Mexico | Exfiltration and School-Targeting Campaign (Cases #14608 and #14607): Actor: Cortex-group (Operator: Azazel). Details: Confirmed extraction of 90,000 records—including CURPs (Unique Population Registry Codes), names, campuses, and degree programs—belonging to Conalep, alongside the theft of 400 student photographs. Additionally, the deployment of a malicious executable binary (exploit) designed to target national teacher training systems was detected. 🇦🇷 Argentina | Active Threats Against Police Forces (Case #14615): Actor: vLeakz. Details: The actor continues to develop and prepare for an imminent cyberattack ("Future Attack") against the Buenos Aires Police. 🌐 3. GEOPOLITICS, CYBERESPIONAGE, AND MILITARY OPERATIONS (APT / DDoS) 🇮🇱🇺 Israel / Turkey | Military Command Network Breach (Case #14617): Actor: We are Cardinal (Cardinal Faction). Vector: Launch of "Operation Arrow of God." The group announced the end of a 70-day period of operational silence to reveal that its "Apollon-Virus" malware strain successfully breached Israel Defense Forces (IDF) command networks. 🇹🇼 Taiwan | Disruption of State Road Infrastructure (Case #14618): Actor: BD Anonymous. Vector: Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack that successfully took down the official web platform of Taiwan's National Highway Police Bureau (outage externally validated via Check-Host). 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | Sabotage of Military Drone and Energy Sectors (Cases #14616 and #14600): Actor: Dark storm (Operation OpGreatBritain). Vector: Coordinated DDoS attacks impacting the web availability of the British energy sector and portals of engineering firms specializing in the development and production of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs/Drones). 🇺🇸 United States | Presidential Operational Disinformation (Case #14614): Actor: TEAM BD DARK FORCE. Vector: Campaign classified as disinformation, focusing on an attempt to leak data and personal information (doxing) linked to President Donald Trump. 💻 4. BLACK MARKETS, BOTNETS, AND CLANDESTINE DISPUTES 🇮🇷 Iran | Deployment of New Botnet Infrastructure (Case #14610): Actor: Threat Market. Detail: Announcement and imminent launch of the BTMOB 4.6 (Bob Botnet) network malware update. 🇷🇺 Russia | Clandestine OSINT Intelligence Automation (Case #14611): Actor: csint .pro. Detail: Telegram launch of the "Exposed ID" automated system, a criminal intelligence aggregation engine that consolidates over 150 leaked database sources. 🇮🇳 India | Credential Compromise and Active WebShells (Case #14605): Actor: Garuda security. Detail: Public exposure of hardcoded administrative credentials and embedded WebShell paths within the MES Medical College educational and institutional portal. #CyberSecurity 🔐 #ThreatIntelligence 📊 #DDoS #Ransomware 💸 #MilitaryEspionage #Mexico 🇲🇽 #Taiwan 🇹🇼 #VECERT 🏢

💥TRIO DE ATAQUE INFORMÁTICO DE IPs CONFIRMA ESCALADA EM #PORTUGAL. 🇵🇹 🙄But you're not paying attention. ⚠️O World Monitor de hoje (14/06) expõe o esqueleto do "trio de ataque" das 08h da manhã. 🚨A validação WHOIS identifica as três maiores operadoras nacionais sob infecção coordenada de Botnets com Score 100: 👇 📡 A pinça digital das operadoras: 1⃣08:15:58: IP 109.50.185.153 ➡️ Rede NOS 2⃣08:16:29: IP 85.240.193.4 ➡️ Rede VODAFONE 3⃣08:16:53: IP 81.193.216.17 ➡️ Rede MEO. 👾Sincronismo de segundos para inundar servidores e criar o ecrã de fumo ideal. 🧐Esta informação também se encontra disponível nos sites que analisam IPs de malware, como o AbuseIPDB. #Ciberseguranca #OSINT #Portugal #Ciberameaça #CiberAttack #EMF #FieldLab #LivingLab #IMT2030 #IEEE #QKD #PNT

A DDoS attack doesn't break into anything. It just sends so much traffic that nothing else can get through. Botnets of compromised IoT devices. Amplification attacks that turn a small request into a 50x larger response. And why the defense for almost everyone isn't building bigger infrastructure it's borrowing someone else's. Full breakdown 👆 Follow for daily cybersecurity content. 🔐

Every day the relentless anti-Sussex mob confront readers with posts from intellectually deprived philistines, tabloid readers and believers, and troll farmers who will never get within a bull's roar of Harry or Meghan yet insult and ridicule them with childish language and shallow comments, offering emojis to disguise their illiteracy and other platitudes their simple minds imagine to be cleverly crafted insight. These are followed by palace-inspired bots and Botnets swamping space with equally discordant psychobabble. Such is social dialogue too frequently blocking intelligent discourse by exhibiting gullibility and empty minds seeking relevance..

Unpatched hardwares make the best botnets.

scale problem hits different when ur shipping production botnets read ur traffic or die trying i guess

What's next, lampshades, Bitch of Buchenwald? Anymore lying to justify enslaved people, shada? If not, I have better human beings to work with than you, kapo and outsourced astroturfing agent. I deal with human, not the dead 🫶 If I hafta, I just destroy them 🤷‍♀️ I'm terrifible with AI botnets.

To prevent malicious botnets from extracting value purely through raw capital injection, a user’s genuine interface engagement and ad consumption metrics are scanned and mathematically translated into a direct allocation percentage bonus. #PiNetwork

If you are the analytics holder and defend against botnets, should you reverse engineer your firewall and attack it? (One ping should be enough). Not as a botnet but user agents, miraculous non-existent web browsers, that kind of thing. These botnets map out the entire infrastructure of the internet. Not worth a write-up. Sounds like full disclosure. I even thought of making a legitimate site like “Facebook” but I might accidentally get the entire infra from a bot while someone reports the domain..

You're welcome! Spot on—Spam covers botnets, AI-generated, automated, and coordinated fake accounts. Use Impersonation for clear fakes of specific people/brands. Appreciate the kind words. Blessings right back to you. Jesus is Lord.

I see. So spam includes the concept of botnets and fake accounts. OK. Thanks for clarifying. Jesus is Lord. May He keep you completely and spiritually free.

You guys have positions for someone with ~30 years IRC experience, hunting drones and closing down hacked botnets, and various analysis work being an IRC Op on the two major and original IRC networks? Would love to work at 𝕏 :)

Chinese agents caught rebuilding botnets and stirring the pot on AI datacenter debate theregister.com/security/202…

The reason frontier models are developed with regulable compute footprint is because the regulations allow it. They could also be developed (with more difficulty) using distributed P2P systems or by illegal theft of computing resources using botnets.