DarkReading’s Kelly Jackson Higgins is reporting on a new study that shows bot infections in the rise in the enterprise, most coming from tiny, unknown botnets built for targeting victim organizations.
The three-month study of more than 600 different botnets found having infiltrated enterprise networks, researchers from Damballa discovered nearly 60 percent are botnets with only a handful to a few hundred bots built to target a particular organization. Only 5 percent of the bot infections were from big-name botnets, such as Zeus/ZDbot and Koobface. Read the full story [darkreading.com]
