10 Most Wanted Botnets

Here’s an interesting run down of the “top ten” botnets according to their respective size and amount of activity.

From Network World:

Botnet attacks are increasing, as cybercrime gangs use compromised computers to send spam, steal personal data, perpetrate click fraud and clobber Web sites in denial-of-service attacks. Here’s a list of America’s 10 most wanted botnets, based on an estimate by security firm Damballa of botnet size and activity in the United States.

But, how many of them are thoroughly pwned by the Secret Service?

For the full list read on.

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Posted by Dave Lewis on July 22, 2009. Filed under Crime,Malware. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.