Bot attacks, the malicious and damaging use of automated computer programs known as bots (or BOTS), have become a growing concern and a pervasive reality in the modern digital landscape. BOTS, or software robots, are automated programs originally designed to perform tasks on the Internet without human intervention. Unfortunately, hackers have also managed to turn them into a hacking technique, created with malicious intent, to manipulate, defraud or disrupt a site, application, API or users, potentially causing enormous damage to businesses and users, compromising the security of systems and data.
To carry out their BOTS attacks, the majority of hackers use software called botkits, which are freely available online and sold on the Dark Web. Vendors of this type of software also offer paid services to carry out BOT attacks, including software to power DDoS attacks.
BOT attacks include, but are not limited to, Email Spam, which is used to send spam emails containing malicious software such as the Cutwail botnet, which can send up to 74 billion messages a day, and DDoS attacks, which involve the massive exploitation of the botnet to overload a target network or server with requests, making it inaccessible to the users for whom it is intended.
BOT attacks can also be aimed at financial theft, with botnets, such as the ZeuS botnet, specifically designed for direct theft of corporate funds and credit card information, or targeted intrusions designed to compromise specific high-value systems, loss of sensitive data, alteration or destruction of websites, damage to corporate reputation, and even significant financial loss.
A botnet consists of a group of machines infected with malicious bots designed to carry out coordinated and massive BOT attacks.
Detecting them can be a challenge. BOTS are designed to mimic human behaviour, and it can be hard to tell them apart. However, there are signs that can help identify these suspicious activities. Some common indicators include an abnormal increase in traffic from a single IP address, predictable and repetitive browsing patterns, and attempts to gain unauthorised access to sensitive resources.
Unfortunately, most of the time these telltale signs can only be observed by professionals, and even then they are not always visible. That's why it's always necessary to protect your IT system with advanced security solutions.
The advanced solutions I'm referring to are those that can detect and, above all, stop all types of attack, whether they come from individuals or robots created to carry them out.
BOT attacks, just like attacks carried out by hackers who target their victims using physhing or social engineering in 99% of cases, must necessarily, once they have made contact with the target system and obtained the hoped-for return from the phishing victim, send the necessary tools (viruses, worms) to achieve their aims.
So an advanced solution like ARCHANGEL Next Generation Firewall, which prevents DDoS attacks, stops viruses and above all prevents them from being deployed on target systems, is the best protection for both networks and individual computers, and above all the data they contain.
In fact, ARCHANGEL NGFW does not limit its activity to detecting IP addresses or domain names, nor to the type of virus, nor to the family to which it belongs, as most firewalls do, nor to the way in which the hacker or BOT proceeds, because its aim is not to fight against this or that virus, but to fight against the effects that any type of virus can have on a system and against the way in which it will proceed once the phishing or social engineering has opened the doors.
When using phishing or social engineering as a means of gaining access to an IT structure, once the target has taken the bait, the hacker will have to send the destructive tools. This is where ARCHANGEL NGFW comes in, preventing them from penetrating the system and, more importantly, from being deployed.
Faced with the growing threat of BOT attacks, it is vital to put in place advanced defence systems. ARCHANGEL NGFW offers effective protection against BOT attacks and other emerging threats and guarantees the security and availability of your digital infrastructure.
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