Six botnets responsible for majority of spam
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Web security analysts have found that around 85% of all the spam is spread by merely 6 botnets. A bot is essentially a computer, which is remotely controlled to perform certain tasks (in this case - spam) without the user's knowledge or consent, a botnet is a "net" of such bots.
At number one we have the Srizbi, which is responsible for almost 40% of all the spam, which analysts say uses "advanced and extremely stealthy malware". More...
