[pchelpers] News: 12m new IP addresses have been hacked

Wednesday, 06 May 2009, 11:31

Cybercriminals have taken control of almost 12-million new IP addresses
since January, a 50% increase since 2008. 

This is one of the findings from McAfee's first quarter threat report,
which also reveals that the US is now home to the largest percentage of
botnet-infected computers, hosting 18% of all zombie machines.
Cybercriminals are building an army of infected, "zombie" computers to
recover from last November's takedown of a central spam-hosting ISP,
according to the new report from Avert Labs.
The November 2008 takedown of McColo dropped spam levels by an estimated
60%, but spam quantities are rising as cybercriminals create new ways to
send bulk e-mails. The quick expansion of botnets threatens to boost
spam levels back up. In fact, spam volumes have already recovered about
70% since McColo went offline.

More here:
http://www.it-online.co.za/content/view/906683/142/
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