2008 DDOS DNS Spyware 
eSecurity Planet
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
Attackers often use botnets to send out spam or phishing campaigns to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Additional features of botnets include spam, ad and click fraud, and spyware. In 2008, the Kraken botnet with 495,000 bots infected 10% of the Fortune 500 companies. Jump ahead: Adware. Bots and botnets.
Herjavec Group
AUGUST 26, 2021
2000 — Mafiaboy — 15-year-old Michael Calce, aka MafiaBoy, a Canadian high school student, unleashes a DDoS attack on several high-profile commercial websites including Amazon, CNN, eBay and Yahoo! 2008 — Heartland Payment Systems — 134 million credit cards are exposed through SQL injection to install spyware on Heartland’s data systems.
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