Over ten million zombie computers worldwide

Zombie computer means a computer which is eg. part of botnet. Cybercriminals use botnets for DoS (Denial of Service) attacks and spreading malware and spam.

Panda and CommTouch have released a report about email threats.

In that report says that there are over ten million zombie computers worldwide.
Eleven per cent of them are from Turkey, Brazil and Russia are next ones. These are responsible for majority of spam. According to latest researches, 74 per cent of all mails are spam.

Luis Corrons from Panda says that this effects to resources according to Nucleus Research

Like header says spam costs 712 dollars a year per employee.