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Dawn of the Botnets

Command Line Heroes

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Hunting Down Botanet Herders

Botro was so successful, resulting in actual convictions and botanet dismantling, that the fbi ran bot roast too. Their work disrupting botanets ramped up and continues to this day. These days, matt says the fbi is less likely to find bot herders like 27 year old vanasof who was running the beetle ap botanet. Things are more organized. It's harder now than it was 15 years ago, simply because their operational security has goten better. So they et on the dark web. They can communicate, and they can sell. I'm sure there's botanet as a service you can you can buy on thedark web. Intorn

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