How Botnets Work: Inside the Hacker Armies Behind DDoS, Stolen Passwords, and Spam (and How to Stop Them)
If the internet sometimes feels chaotic, there’s a reason. Behind the outage headlines and suspicious login alerts sit botnets—vast armies of hacked devices quietly doing a criminal’s bidding. They’re not just computers anymore. Phones, routers, baby monitors, doorbell cameras—if it connects to the internet, it can be conscripted. Here’s the unsettling part: you may not…