Researchers Find Massive Botnet On Nearly 2 Million Infected Consumer, Business, Government PCs

 

More than 70 government-owned domains hit, and nearly half of the overall infections are in the U.S.

According to the DarkReading article, 'Researchers have discovered a major botnet operating out of the Ukraine that has infected 1.9 million machines, including large corporate and government PCs mainly in the U.S. The botnet, which appears to be larger than the infamous Storm botnet was in its heyday, has infected machines from some 77 government-owned domains b__ 51 of which are in the US government. Researchers from Finjan who found the botnet say it's controlled by six individuals, and includes machines in major banks.

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