12. Unix and Linux

• Fact: there are tons of Linux machines running botnet clients!

• Q8bot and kaiten bots are the most well known bots written explicitly for Unix systems

• Countless little Perl scripts pervade LAMP^(*) nightmares

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  • ^(*) LAMP is an acronym for open source software: Linux, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL database, and PHP -- principal components to build a viable general-purpose web server.