Security News > 2018 > October > Serverless botnets could soon become reality

We have been accustomed to think about botnets as a network of compromised machines – personal devices, IoT devices, servers – waiting for their masters’ orders to begin their attack, but Protego researchers say that many compromised machines are definitely not a requirement: botnets can quite as easily be comprised of serverless functions. They created one on the Google Cloud Functions platform as a proof of concept and have calculated that the losses experienced by … More → The post Serverless botnets could soon become reality appeared first on Help Net Security.

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