As well as roping in collaborators, most attackers use botnets: vast networks of virus-infected computers that obey secret commands from a faraway “bot-herder”.

除了拉上同盟者一同作战外，多数袭击者也会使用僵尸网络，即由众多受病毒感染的电脑组成的网络，这些受感染的电脑由“僵尸牧人”给秘密指令进行遥控。