Botnet
//ˈbɒtnɛt//
"Botnet" in a Sentence (3 examples)
The president of Eurojust called the cybercrime group, known as Avalanche, "one of the world's largest and most malicious botnet infrastructures" and said its take-down by authorities was one of the biggest to date.
Then they blacklisted addresses used by spammers. In response, senders started using botnets (networks of otherwise innocent computers).
Google Chrome is botnet, use Firefox instead
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