The scariest thing about the largest botnet in 6 years, observed, is the part about observed. Don’t let a botnet herder use your systems. The observation was in China in late 2019 and most of the infected nodes were there. This short article discusses a cyberthreat news story and offers some simple ways to be a safer computer user.
According to Paloaltonetworks, “A botnet (short for “robot network”) is a network of computers infected by malware that are under the control of a single attacking party, known as the “bot-herder.” Researchers have released details about the ‘PINK’ #malware, which they say is the “largest #botnet” observed in the wild in the last six years, infecting over 1.6 million devices. Read details: thehackernews.com/2021/11/resear #infosec #cybersecurity #technews #cyberattack #hacking,
This story is best reason seen lately to install the electronic frontier foundations: (https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere). Whether you install it or not, paying attention to links that are in hidden like the one above in text word is a good idea. Part of the notion that bot herders and other count on is our short attention span. Just a brief pause lets us know where we are headed.
HTTPS Everywhere
is a tool or plugin that operates in your browse insuring the HyperText Transfer Protocols Secure is operating on the site. The tool stops one from going to sites that host or harbor exploits that infect computers.
- Know you are using HTTPS
- Know where you are
- Know where you are going.
Training people to watch for danger signs is something Tekmar has encouraged for years. We firmly believe everyone wants to be a safe and comforatable computer user. To do that deploying a little mindfulness of technology goes a long way.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
– – Aristotle
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