The worst of the worst.
Botnets are emerging as the shadow network infrastructure of the Internet – the “botsphere,” perhaps – one that is available for hire by spammers and others who would like to use a massive cloud-computing infrastructure for denial-of-service attacks and other shady dealings. Ellen Messmer has compiled a list of the “most wanted” botnets, those with the broadest reach or the darkest purposes. Check it out.
