Take That: A Million Botnets Later…
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Security on
Although the word from security specialists MessageLabs that cyber-criminals are getting ready for a Christmas phishing frenzy is not exactly unexpected, the scale of the darknet activity certainly is. Apparently the botnet being put together in order to enable the web high street phishing expedition is already getting very close to one million PCs in size, the largest botnet reported for more than two years. What
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