Nearly a Quarter Million PCs Turned Into 'Zombies' Daily

[Kristijntje]

New research indicates that more than 200,000 computers were commandeered and turned into "zombies" each day last month, and that the amount of virus messaging on the Internet has increased by 50 percent during the last two months.

The increase made December a record month of new zombie activity reaching 7,609,465 total infected IPs. The largest number of infected IPs continues to alternate between the U.S. and China, primarily due to the large number of computers coming online for the first time.

Experts tell TechNewsWorld that over the last six months, CipherTrust's "global threat correlation engine" had been identifying an average of 170,000 new infected zombie computers each day.

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