Hands-On Machine Learning for Cybersecurity

Bots

Bots are programs that are capable of performing automative tasks. Bots might not be malicious, but in recent times they have been primarily used for malicious purposes only. A computer acting as a bot when aggregated with several other such computers is called a botnet, and primarily called a spam botnet. Spam botnets are used to spread spam emails and initiate DDoS attacks on servers; they may or may not have web scrapers spidering that automatically gather data.