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botherder

noun

Etymology

From bot + herder.

  1. derived from *hirdijaz✻
  2. derived from *hirdī✻
  3. derived from hyrde
  4. derived from herde — “herder, herdsman”
  5. inherited from herder
  6. compounded as botherder — “bot + herder”

Definitions

  1. A malicious hacker who controls a botnet.

    • After securing the computer against antivirus tools, previous hackers, and detection by the user, the botherder might check to see what else might be here.
    • Most bots use a central C&C server for communicating with their botherder, and normally they use the standard IRC protocol for that purpose.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for botherder. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA