Advanced Power Botnet

Posted: December 19, 2013

Threat Metric

The Threat Meter is a malware assessment that SpywareRemove.com's research team is able to give every identifiable malware threat. Our Threat Meter includes several criteria based off of specific malware threats to value their severity, reach and volume. The Threat Meter is able to give you a numerical breakdown of each threat's initial Threat Level, Detection Count, Volume Count, Trend Path and Percentage Impact. The overall ranking of each threat in the Threat Meter is a basic breakdown of how all threats are ranked within our own extensive malware database. The scoring for each specific malware threat can be easily compared to other emerging threats to draw a contrast in its particular severity. The Threat Meter is a useful tool in the endeavor of seeking a solution to remove a threat or pursue additional analytical research for all types of computer users.

The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:

Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.

Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.

Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.

Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.

% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.

Threat Level:	1/10
Infected PCs:	112

First Seen:	December 23, 2013
Last Seen:	July 9, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The Advanced Power Botnet is a series of backdoor Trojans used to control your PC by linking it to a 'network' of similarly-infected systems to perform a wide variety of criminal actions. Although a botnet can be used for many purposes and are particularly well-known for instigating Denial of Service attacks, Advanced Power Botnet currently specializes in analyzing any websites the user visits for potential vulnerabilities. Exploiting these vulnerabilities may enable criminals to implement some kind of attacks or even steal confidential databases that include broad user information. To keep Advanced Power Botnet's zombie botnet suitably curbed, malware experts encourage protecting your PC with anti-malware products and removing Advanced Power Botnet's individual Trojans with similar tools.

The Trojans with the Power to Turn You into a Web-Analyzing Slave

The Advanced Power Botnet is a generalized term for the collective group of computers compromised by individual backdoor Trojans. Individual PCs compromised in this manner sometimes are referred to as 'bots' or even 'zombies,' and may receive instructions to launch any number of attacks. Malware experts don't find most botnet-based functions to be very visible detectable, and an Advanced Power Botnet-compromised computer may not behave very differently from usual, other than showing a slight to significant increase in system resource expenditures.

A successful infiltration by Trojans from the Advanced Power Botnet may cause your PC to be forcibly recruited as a website reconnaissance tool. Any sites visited through an infected PC will be analyzed for their potential vulnerability to SQL injection attacks – an exploit that may grant criminals access to a website's protected database, amongst other things. This gives criminals using the Advanced Power Botnet an incredibly broad, low maintenance way of finding new sites to attack, either for purposes of theft or to distribute threats like Advanced Power Botnet Trojans.

Being More Advanced in Defense Than a Powerful Botnet

The Advanced Power Botnet may be a danger that's fairly difficult to spot once the Advanced Power Botnet is on your PC, but good PC security habits will help you prevent that circumstance from arising at all. Over ten thousand PCs already have been confirmed to be infected by distribution methods that disguise the Advanced Power Botnet's Trojan installer as a fake version of Microsoft's .NET Framework Assistant. This actually is a real program, an add-on for the Firefox Web browser, which makes it all the more likely that incautious PC users may install the Trojan without thinking anything of it.

Botnet Trojans, including those from the Advanced Power Botnet, may try to hide and protect themselves from being uninstalled. Removing your personal doorway into the Advanced Power Botnet is a matter of enacting general anti-malware solutions that can detect all components related to the original compromise of your PC. Malware experts also would suggest using Safe Mode and even a system boot from a peripheral device as ways to help make your scans pick up any PC threats related to the Advanced Power Botnet.

Advanced Power Botnet

Threat Metric

The Trojans with the Power to Turn You into a Web-Analyzing Slave

Being More Advanced in Defense Than a Powerful Botnet

Leave a Reply