Julio Canto wrote: > 1.5 million computer BotNet? That's a big fat one. As far as I remember > , in the begining of 2006 I read something about the mean stimated size > were of about 40.000. One million and a half sounds like a too big > monster to 'produce' only 60.000 euros in 6 months.
As Valdis said, maybe the 60,000 Euros is just what the prosecutors are confident they can prove? Also, as for 1.5 million bots -- maybe that's a count of unique IPs seen on the known C&C's and thus may _seriously_ overestimate the actual number? Maybe it includes 30-70% of compromised machines being on slow (capped DSL, ISDN, dial-up, etc) connections that the herders weren't using for any tasks where they preferred higher bandwidth? Maybe these herders were good at collecting bots and not so good at on- selling services using them, so they had an awful lot of bots "idling" until they actually found a use for them? Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
