The Importance Of Cyber Attack

Internet attacks or Cyber-attack is any type of objectionable action operated by individuals or whole organizations that targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks, and/or personal computer devices by so many means of unprincipled acts normally initiated from an unspecified source that either steals, alters, or destroys a particular target by hacking into a susceptible system. There are so many ways through which anyone can harm any personal computers, or any organizations like Phishing, Viruses, Distributed denial of service, Click frauds, Spamming, Identity theft etc. Now a day’s approximately 90% of the attacks are done through distributed denial of service. For example-

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To prevent such attacks, it is therefore possible to identify, infiltrate and analyze the remote control mechanism and to stop it in an automated fashion. We realized in the Internet how we infiltrated and tracked IRC-based botnet which are the main DDoS technology used by attackers today.Botnet have been in existence for about 10 years [].Security experts have been cautioning the public about the threat posed by botnets for some time. Still, the scale and magnitude of the problem caused by botnets are underrated and most users do not comprehend the real threat they

According F-Secure [8], ZeroAccess is the most prevalent botnet observed in 2012. It compromised the largest number of machines in France, United States and Sweden, and it is considered most profitable malicious architecture. ZeroAccess infected millions of machines globally in 2012 with up to 140,000 unique IPs in US and Europe. F-Secure Threat Report H2 2012 states:

“The malicious site contains an exploit kit, usually Blackhole, which targets vulnerabilities on the user’s machine while they’re visiting the site. Once the machine is compromised, the kit drops the malware, which then turns the computer into a ZeroAccess