Botnet as a Service towards National Defense and Security

The fast development of computer technologies has resulted in the evolution and emergence of botnets. The emergences of botnets have brought up attentions from the majority, which includes investors, vendors, the researcher community, and hackers. Botnets can be used for a wide range of malicious activities such as distributed denial of service (DDoS), unauthorized remote access, theft of business information, malware distribution, espionage, and cryptocurrency mining. In this paper, the vulnerabilities within government sectors that botnets can exploit on will be elaborated. Moreover, the impacts as well as the defense techniques will also be elaborated. STRIDE threat modelling will be used in this paper to identify and assess the threats and vulnerabilities brought by botnets.