The Mevade Botnet, also known as Sefnit or SBC, is a massive botnet. Its operators are unknown and its motives seems to be multi-purpose.Debbie Cohen-Abravanel (November 6, 2013). "Mevade Botnet Attacking Enterprises & Governments".
In late 2013 the Tor anonymity network saw a very sudden and significant increase in users, from 800,000 daily to more than 5,000,000. A botnet was suspected and fingers pointed at Mevade. Trend Micro reported that its Smart Protection Network saw a tor module being distributed to Mevade Trojans."Massive spike of Tor users caused by Mevade botnet".
See also Conficker Command and control (malware) Gameover ZeuS Operation Tovar Timeline of computer viruses and worms Tiny Banker Trojan Torpig Zeus (malware) Zombie (computer science)
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