Study: Nearly a Quarter Million PCs Turned Into ‘Zombies’ Daily
New research indicates that more than 200,000 computers were commandeered and turned into “zombies” each day last month, and that the amount of virus messaging on the Internet has increased by 50 percent during the last two months. Experts tell TechNewsWorld that over the last six months, CipherTrust’s “global threat correlation engine” had been identifying an average of 170,000 new infected zombie computers each day. Full Story