The Internet Of Garbage Highlight

Large-scale sustained campaigns also resemble tiny, crude, handmade botnets. At the center is an orchestrator, who perhaps engages in harassment from multiple “sockpuppet” accounts—the corollary to the burnable domains and email addresses that are so highly sought after by spammers. But the really bizarre phenomena are all the low-level mobbers, who have little-to-no real investment in going after the target, and would not manifest any obsessions with that particular target without the orchestrator to set them off. Here they resemble the zombie nodes of spam botnets,