# Counter C00123: Remove or rate limit botnets

* **Summary**: reduce the visibility of known botnets online. 

* **Playbooks**: 

* **Metatechnique**: M004 - friction

* **Resources needed:** 

* **Belongs to tactic stage**: TA09


| Actor types | Sectors |
| ----------- | ------- |



| Counters these Tactics |
| ---------------------- |



| Counters these Techniques |
| ------------------------- |
| [T0029 Manipulate online polls](../generated_pages/techniques/T0029.md) |
| [T0049 Flooding](../generated_pages/techniques/T0049.md) |
| [T0054 Twitter bots amplify](../generated_pages/techniques/T0054.md) |
| [T0060 Continue to amplify](../generated_pages/techniques/T0060.md) |



| Seen in incidents |
| ----------------- |


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