The world's largest botnet of the past six years, with over 1.6 million infected devices, has been discovered in the wild. This botnet has been dubbed "Pink" due to a number of function names in its code that begin with that word.
The primary goals of the Pink botnet are to launch denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, and to insert advertisements that will be viewed by unsuspecting victims who are just browsing the web. Pink uses encrypted communications with a number of services — like GitHub, command-and-control (C&C) servers, and peer-to-peer (P2P) networks — to control the bots.
Acronis Cyber Protect uses advanced behavioral detection to identify and block Pink as well as other novel forms of malware, preventing malicious behaviors from executing on your systems and keeping your data secure.
