Wow. 1.5 million PCs in a botnet

This article says prosecutors state that the Dutch teenieboppers arrested last week actually had 1.5 million zombies in their botnet, up from an initial estimate of 100,000. I’ve never heard numbers larger than tens of thousands.

1 comment for “Wow. 1.5 million PCs in a botnet

  1. ilja
    October 26, 2005 at 9:19 am

    http://www.honeynet.org/papers/bots/

    “Keep in mind, botnets with over several hundred thousands hosts have been reported in the past.”

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