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Some dismantled botnets rank in the top ten most prevalent as old bot malware gets repurposed, according to new Fortinet report

Mar 19, 2013
By Kelly Jackson Higgins

If there's one thing we've learned about botnets, it's that old botnets die hard -- if at all. And one-third of the top 10 botnets identified by Fortinet are nearly 10 years old, underscoring the difficulty of truly eradicating these easily built armies of infected machines.

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