Botnets

How the FBI took down "Cyclops Blink," a Russia state botnet infecting network firewalls.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/04/fbi-accesses-us-servers-to-dismantle-botnet-malware-installed-by-russian-spies/

The Mirai Botnet (and Botnets in general)

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/glossary/mirai-botnet/

Understanding the Mirai Botnet

https://mdbailey.ece.illinois.edu/publications/usesec17_mirai.pdf 

Your Botnet is My Botnet: Analysis of a Botnet Takeover (Torpig)
https://seclab.cs.ucsb.edu/media/uploads/papers/torpig.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpig