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.

About half a million computers get bot infection daily

About half a million computers get bot infection daily, tells PandaLabs in its 2007 annual report.

Around 11 percent of all computers belong to botnets which is extremely scary. Those computers send over 85 percent of all spam mail.

- Creator of botnet can lease it to others. Internet criminals use those in many criminals acts like infecting those computers and for DoS (Denial of Service) attacks. One of the most commonly used ways is sending of spam mailsm, tells PandaLabs leader Luis Corrons.

In year 2007 over a half of home user mails were spam. And situation is even more difficulties in companies, same amount was there between 80 and 95 percent.

The origin of spam mail was in almost 60 percent of all cases Russia and in 60 percent of all cases USA. Other major spammer countries were Turkey (6 %), Germany (5 %) and Great Britain (3 %).

Source: Panda

Cracker site infects for money

PC World has interviewed researchers who have found a East European site which asks 0,2 $ / infected computer. Prepayment is also possible; you can buy eg. for 10000 infections for 2000 $.

After infection site sends purchaser IP addresses of infected machines that cracker knows where to attack. That site doesn't offer exploits or viruses but cracker can choose means freely.

Researchers believe that botnet can have millions of computers inside.

PC World warns that you shouldn't visit loads.cc as it might log IP addresses. There was found no malicious code on front page but that doesn't guarantee that also other pages there are clean.

Source: PC World