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Up To 9% of a Company's Machines Are Bot-Infected

Posted by kdawson on from the 9-percent-of-your-machine-are-belong-to-us-and-that's-enough dept.

ancientribe sends in a DarkReading piece on the expanding footprint of small, targeted botnets in enterprises. "Bot infections are on the rise in businesses, and most come from botnets you've never heard of nor ever will. Botnet researchers at Damballa have found that nearly 60 percent of bot infections in organizations are from bot armies 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. And more businesses are getting hit: 7 to 9 percent of an organization's machines are bot-infected, up from 5-to-7 percent last year, according to Damballa. ... [Damballa's] Ollmann says many of the smaller botnets appear to have more knowledge of the targeted organization as well. 'They are very strongly associated with a lot of insider knowledge...and we see a lot of hands-on command and control with these small botnets,' he says. ... Ollmann says botnets of all sizes are also increasingly using more and different types of malware rather than one particular family in order to evade detection. 'Most botnets, even small ones, have hundreds of different pieces of malware and families in use..."

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  1. Up To 9% of a Company's Machines Are Bot-Infected by navygeek · · Score: 4, Funny

    And after reading the linked article, there's another 40% :-p

  2. Voltron Anyone? by Zantac69 · · Score: 3, Funny

    For some reason - this made me think of Voltron. Not the lion voltron - but the crappy vehicle voltron. All the tiny botnets coming together to form a huge botnet...but it would probably be a ro-beast. Maybe then lion voltron could come destroy the evil bot-net ro-beast.

    Great - now my day is ruined because I am going to be looking for an MP3 of the lion voltron assembly thing to put as a ring tone on my phone.

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  3. Apple fanboys by Chrisq · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought it was only Apple fanboys who had to worry about getting their bots infected.

  4. Re:Bot scanner? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Linux botnet of zombie servers. I believe in the lingo the kids one would say: pwned!

  5. Re:Education by snowraver1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ***Irony alert** Title : Education. Text: "If you want to be 100% secure, higher smart people and shut off your internet pipe."

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