Botnet still the top malware infection in India

F-Secure shares its report about the malware infection in India, in which Botnet is still on the top. Hackers manage to own your PC’s and use them for spamming, DDOS (Type of Denial of Service (DoS) attack) or other malicious activity to make substantial amount of money!

A ‘bot' is primarily a type of malware that an attacker can use to control an infected computer or mobile device. A group or network of machines that have been co-opted this way and are under the control of the same attacker is known a ‘botnet'.

Despite the decline of Downadup/Conficker, infections like Sality, Ramnit and Virtob have continue to mark their presence in the Indian threat landscape over the period of last 3 years. 2014 highlighted many threats and F-Secure timely highlight them to keep its existing and prospective users safe.