New Malware Used to Create Botnet

Currently, neither Microsoft nor Kaspersky can provide precise numbers to indicate the size of this potentially new botnet, but Kaspersky’s analysis reveals that the size of the old botnet dropped by 25% in the past two months.

It is estimated that the old botnet’s size is far smaller than initially thought, less than 10,000 computers being infected.

What is botnet ? - Security Term

A botnet (also known as a zombie army) is a number of Internet computers that, although their owners are unaware of it, have been set up to forward transmissions (including spam or viruses) to other computers on the Internet.