While most botnets use compromised computers without their owners' knowledge, users in a voluntary botnet allow their computers to be taken over to increase the traffic that overloads the Web servers.
Security researchers from Lumen's Black Lotus were investigating the ngioweb botnet for more than a year After identifying the infrastructure and traffic, the company started blocking the data ...
The Ngioweb botnet, which supplies most of the 35,000 bots in the cybercriminal NSOCKS proxy service, is being disrupted as security companies block traffic to and from the two networks.