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What's your Preference... Botnets , loaders and RATs - CyberXero - Aug 15, 2026
Curious to know what got you hooked with botnets and Ratting,
Are you still actively engaging with these activity's now
How did your first victory feel!
RE: What hooked you - TooBuck - Aug 20, 2026
I never got into the IoT scene. In my youth I used to run very basic (and honestly embarrassing) HTTP nets like Dirt Jumper and WarBot.
I cant even wrap my head around how much things have changed. With IoT, there's so much aggregate bandwidth available, however the competition to gain a large network is huge. All the bot killing, ensuring your C2 infrastructure remains up, finding adequate hosting. I would feel like an old man, totally out of touch if I went that route. Idk.
RE: What hooked you - bandors - Aug 20, 2026
I got banned from a minecraft server in '12 for an unjust reason, and I had to work hard to get my vengeance >:)
aaahhh to be a punk teen hacker without a care in the world again....
RE: What hooked you - CyberXero - Aug 20, 2026
TooBuck bandors there was a time that I had tried it, never had the success back then but I bed nowadays I could probably pull it off with time and money rightt,
I bet the good ol days were golden for you both, Im still exploring, it's fresh to me,
RE: What hooked you - bandors - Aug 20, 2026
(Aug 20, 2026 10:51 PM)CyberXero Wrote: TooBuck bandors there was a time that I had tried it, never had the success back then but I bed nowadays I could probably pull it off with time and money rightt,
I bet the good ol days were golden for you both, Im still exploring, it's fresh to me,
Imagine a world without cloud flare. Kids buying $20 booters could actually fuck up big companies. It was a really funny time to be a punk teen hacker. Oh god, I remember Java Drive Bys being so much easier. Give someone a link, boom, you got all their cookies and can log into their stuff. It used to be so wild.
RE: What hooked you - CyberXero - Aug 20, 2026
oh man, wish i was around the right crowd back then, times may have changed but i am willing to poke around till i figure out the direction imma take, back then i was just looking at other types of markets cant really say aloud
RE: What hooked you - Snakesss - Aug 22, 2026
Nostalgia at its finest lol - mIRC cut my teeth here.
Pretending to be an adult as a brand new teenager - Moderating and eventually Administrating private servers.
That's probably the heaviest thing I hold that got me into the love of tech.
Sneaking out of bed to finish my dialog box for my socks5's to load into then sending a hail storm of input that resulted in the attacker simply unplugging before I had to type out the /kline.
Kinda like an old Yahoo chat flood bot but a bit more technical.
Man, how the times have changed.
RE: What hooked you - WraithTools - Aug 29, 2026
(Aug 15, 2026 06:44 PM)CyberXero Wrote: Curious to know what got you hooked with botnets and botting, how did your first victory feel.
Started with host booter 1.4. I uploaded Norton 360 cracked to the pirate bay with my uncrypted bot. I got like 110 active bots aall the time so like 700-1k total from it. After that I switched to an IRC botnet (my own Aspergillus mod) and I uploaded a cracked Photoshop on xmas eve of 2010. I woke up on xmas morning and I had 4k bots consistently online, by the end of the day I had 20-25k constantly online which is like a 200-400k net. Signed up for a PPD revshare Russian ad switcher (very discreet) and downloaded it to the whole net. Made $740k USD in a little over 3 months. I was fascinated by botnets ever since. They are just cool. Got raided 3 times for cyber stuff (including Darkode takedown), none of it ever stack, and 12 years later I still love botnets.
(Aug 20, 2026 08:57 PM)TooBuck Wrote: I never got into the IoT scene. In my youth I used to run very basic (and honestly embarrassing) HTTP nets like Dirt Jumper and WarBot.
I cant even wrap my head around how much things have changed. With IoT, there's so much aggregate bandwidth available, however the competition to gain a large network is huge. All the bot killing, ensuring your C2 infrastructure remains up, finding adequate hosting. I would feel like an old man, totally out of touch if I went that route. Idk.
That's why I made a P2P botnet. Bored of losing whole nets.
RE: What hooked you - closedeyeknight - Aug 31, 2026
Just for fun
RE: What hooked you - CyberXero - Aug 31, 2026
(Aug 29, 2026 04:13 PM)WraithTools Wrote: Started with host booter 1.4. I uploaded Norton 360 cracked to the pirate bay with my uncrypted bot. I got like 110 active bots aall the time so like 700-1k total from it. After that I switched to an IRC botnet (my own Aspergillus mod) and I uploaded a cracked Photoshop on xmas eve of 2010. I woke up on xmas morning and I had 4k bots consistently online, by the end of the day I had 20-25k constantly online which is like a 200-400k net. Signed up for a PPD revshare Russian ad switcher (very discreet) and downloaded it to the whole net. Made $740k USD in a little over 3 months. I was fascinated by botnets ever since. They are just cool. Got raided 3 times for cyber stuff (including Darkode takedown), none of it ever stack, and 12 years later I still love botnets.
That's why I made a P2P botnet. Bored of losing whole nets.
This is exactly what motivates people to dip their toes in water!
That's a great success story for real !
Honestly motivating
RE: What hooked you - Machete911 - Sep 1, 2026
nice )thank u [warn]
RE: What hooked you - CyberXero - Sep 1, 2026
(Sep 1, 2026 02:04 PM)Machete911 Wrote: nice )thank u
im guessing your post whoring?
RE: What hooked you - CyberXero - Sep 6, 2026
(Aug 29, 2026 04:13 PM)WraithTools Wrote: Started with host booter 1.4. I uploaded Norton 360 cracked to the pirate bay with my uncrypted bot. I got like 110 active bots aall the time so like 700-1k total from it. After that I switched to an IRC botnet (my own Aspergillus mod) and I uploaded a cracked Photoshop on xmas eve of 2010. I woke up on xmas morning and I had 4k bots consistently online, by the end of the day I had 20-25k constantly online which is like a 200-400k net. Signed up for a PPD revshare Russian ad switcher (very discreet) and downloaded it to the whole net. Made $740k USD in a little over 3 months. I was fascinated by botnets ever since. They are just cool. Got raided 3 times for cyber stuff (including Darkode takedown), none of it ever stack, and 12 years later I still love botnets.
That's why I made a P2P botnet. Bored of losing whole nets.
Honestly, after I complete my SQL journey in the SQL injection attacks section I'm gonna jump into establishing a botnet, but still yet to learn a deeper knowledge before jumping in,
RE: What hooked you - WraithTools - Sep 6, 2026
(Sep 6, 2026 01:13 PM)CyberXero Wrote: Honestly, after I complete my SQL journey in the SQL injection attacks section I'm gonna jump into establishing a botnet, but still yet to learn a deeper knowledge before jumping in,
The trick is to keep it native no .NET etc, Small stub, decent crypter that just crypts no fancy features. Bulletproof domains and hosting.
RE: What Influenced you to create a Botnet! - Terry A. Davis - Sep 6, 2026
I didn't create a malicious one, but I have created a closed net of discrete computers that are able to complete tasks I assign based on computers around the country.
I have field PCs, and have basically made a tool that says you are to do this bit of discrete work. Whatever that may be, if it is tangible I can have it done.