Malicious botnets responsible for 40% of global login attempts

In the fourth quarter of 2017, a spike in the use of botnets for credential abuse was noted as 7.3 trillion bot requests were analysed.

Remote code execution vulnerabilities particularly in enterprise-level software have also proved a favourable target for attackers recently, looking to enslave the systems as part of botnets.

Source: Malicious botnets responsible for 40% of global login attempts