Here’s an interesting run down of the “top ten” botnets according to their respective size and amount of activity.
From Network World:
Botnet attacks are increasing, as cybercrime gangs use compromised computers to send spam, steal personal data, perpetrate click fraud and clobber Web sites in denial-of-service attacks. Here’s a list of America’s 10 most wanted botnets, based on an estimate by security firm Damballa of botnet size and activity in the United States.
But, how many of them are thoroughly pwned by the Secret Service?
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For the full list read on.