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botmaster

noun

Etymology

From bot + master.

  1. derived from maistre
  2. derived from *méǵh₂s✻
  3. derived from magester
  4. derived from magister — “chief, teacher, leader”
  5. inherited from mǣster
  6. inherited from maister
  7. compounded as botmaster — “bot + master”

Definitions

  1. A malicious hacker who controls a botnet.

    • Tracking the botmaster to her true physical location is a complex problem that is described in detail in the next section.
    • [The worm] had spread silently for six days before it began regularly trying to connect with its botmaster, who could have been hiding behind any of the 250 domain names the worm generated afresh each day.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for botmaster. 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