Attacks on PCs by botnets–the so-called zombie networks–are becoming more of a problem, with more than a million hosts already controlled by hackers.
That’s according to the Honeynet Project, an organization that sets up PCs to be deliberately affected, which found that “the threat posed by botnets is probably worse than originally believed.”
The research found that the threats can’t be underestimated as they pose “a severe threat” to the wider community. It’s more bad news for PC users. Two months ago, the Honeynet Project found that hackers were concentrating almost exclusively on Windows machines.
In its latest research, the project tracked more than 100 active botnets, including one containing 50,000 compromised “zombie” machines.
Source: PC World
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