Bad Botnet Growth Skyrockets in 2017

Bad Botnet Growth Skyrockets in 2017Bad bots are big – and getting bigger. There was a 37% increase in botnet command-and-control (C&C) listings in 2017, with the majority (68%) of them being hosted on servers run by threat actors.According to the Spamhaus Botnet Threat Report 2017, the company’s malware division identified and issued Spamhaus Block List (SBL) listings for more than 9,500 botnet C&C servers on 1,122 different networks. In 2017, nearly every seventh SBL listin