Up to 9% of your companies computers may be part of a bot net

In a recent article on DarkReading researchers have found that up to 9% of a large companies computers may be part of a bot net.The surprising part to this is that most of these computers are not part of the major bot net farms, but they are part of smaller bot nets with just a few to a few hundred members.  Based on the article, most of these bot nets are targeted to the company which owns the computers the bots are sitting on.

According to the researchers who presented there findings recently at the Virus Bulletin Conference in Geneva it appears that the bulk of these bot nets are controlled, or at least configured using inside information.  It also appears that the bulk of these bot nets controllers are very hands on, but they did not specify if the bots are being controlled from within the network or outside the network.

One very important piece of information which wasn’t included in this article which I think should have been, is the number of companies networks which they looked at.  If they looked at 5 companies to come up with these numbers then these are just scare tactics.  If they looked at 10,000 companies networks and 100% of them had infections, that’s a little more impressive; and way more meaning full.

Denny