Botnets - history

November 2, 1988 Morris was running the worm Worm that can automatically infect other systems using the Internet. Infected more than 6 thousand. computers, which accounted for approximately 10% of the then-Fi. Losses were estimated at 10 to 100 million dollars. The suspect pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years of judicial observation, 400 hours of community service and a fine of 10 thousand. U.S. dollars. The first real botnet network formed in 1993. These worms were connected to an IRC network and are controlled by sending messages through the network. It is still the most popular, although not the only, way of controlling botnets. In January 2007 the Storm botnet has been identified. Based on data from September 2007 found that has the ability to cut off the internet all over the country and has the potential to perform more calculations per second than the best supercomputers. April 22, 2009 World company Finjan announced that a botnet made ​​up of at least 1.9 million computers seized.