Nine of the worst botnets ever seen

Botnets are responsible for a great deal of the hacking, spamming and malware that we read about in the news, yet public awareness of the hacker’s favorite tool remains relatively limited. The ability to control a large botnet gives hackers and cybercriminals the ability to send billions of spam emails, or orchestrate massive DDOS attacks at will. In a nutshell, a botnet is a collection of infected computers that have been infected with a virus to bring them under the control of one single hacker or organization.

If you want to know more about botnets, click here for an interview with ESET Security Intelligence Program Manager, Pierre-Marc Bureau. Here we take a look at some of the worst botnets ever found.

Nine of the worst botnets ever seen