I found this to be interesting, yet a little amusing at the same time. It seems to be that Christmas decreases the levels at which botnet (and their operators) operate. Could it be because these spammers have holiday cheer, or could it be because they forgot to get gifts for others and did it at the last minute? As much as I’d like to say its the former, I’m going to have to shoot for the latter.

Apparently, Christmas helps to thwart botnet operators. According to observations made by several watchdog groups, the size of global botnets has abruptly decreased. Botnets are networks of thousands, to hundreds of thousands, of infected PCs, which are mostly running on Windows and are remotely controlled, often without the knowledge of their owners. Criminals use botnets to distribute spam mails and malware or to launch large attacks (DDoS) on other web servers or networks.[more]

Tags: Hackers, Malware, Scams, Spam