Kraken botnet

The Kraken botnet was a notable malicious network of compromised computers, often used for various cybercriminal activities, including distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, spamming, and data theft. It was active in the mid-2000s and was one of the first botnets to use peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, allowing infected machines to communicate with each other, making it more resilient to takedowns.