Christmas Botnet Threat

[Taffycat]

'Tis (supposed to be) the season of goodwill to all men but.....

A sudden increase in spam has been identified in the latest security report issued today, as cyber-criminals gear up for a pre-Christmas blitz.

.....MessageLabs revealed last week that it had detected a botnet of nearly one million zombie PCs being assembled.

The object is to launch a wave of phishing attacks, apparently. The complete article is on Vnunet, for those who might be interested.