http://www.finjan.com/MCRCblog.aspx?EntryId=2237 :o
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10223716-83.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0
My only surprise is that the figure is so small :
Hi DavidR,
I think they did not even wanted to know how large a real large botnet is to-day as 50% of Windows computers could be zombie-machines in a botnet, and there are combined botnet-herds as well for special activities and can be hired by gangs, that means one in every two Windows machines is run by someone else than the man or woman between the keyboard and the chair of the actual console. These cybergangs want to make their money without any harassment, so not a lot of PC users will even notice that they are being owned by a bot-herder, they go on with their activities greatly unnoticed and undetected, all this came in with cybercrime since 2006. Number of bots cannot be precise without special check-ups. IP numbers may vary. Bots are not always up and running all day and all night, and some may have vanished altogether…
As a rule we can say 1 bot != 1 computer. Various malware versions run on one infected machine (just by stupid programming), nice blinking story, the real facts are somewhat more serious, and a bit different as given,
polonus
and here is another Gang activity
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=009131822