The astonishingly increasing number of attacks each year trouble corporate heads so much that they spend hours on end discussing their company’s cyber security system. The IT professionals and Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) are even more troubled, for they keep seeing their efforts foiled by hackers.
In the past two years there has been a rise in botnet activity. This seems like a strange occurrence when in 2013, collaboration between law enforcement and the private sector took down two of the biggest botnet threats of the decade, the Game over Zeus and Shylock Botnets.