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Botnet Grinds To A Halt

Interesting notes from the Viruslist on the spread of a botnet.

We’ve been observing quite a small botnet - around 8000 zombie-machines - recently. Just a few days ago it exploded and started growing very quickly. The growth only stopped early yesterday evening - around 5pm Moscow time - when the overall total number of zombies was about 14000!

It’s interesting to take a look at how the network grew.

Read on.

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