CYREN Notes Botnet Expansion: Increase in Malware Distribution Correlates with Decrease in Spam—Companies Urged to Remain Alert to Malware Detection and Mitigation
November 13, 2014
In recent weeks, CYREN has noted a dramatic increase in the number of active malware-sending bots, which appears to correlate with a slowdown in spam-sending bots. Periodically throughout the year, CYREN analysts see these types of fluctuations. Reasons vary, although CYREN analysts suspect that botnet owners are “repurposing”, with the