Weve been observing a small botnet around 8000 zombie-machines recently. Just a few days ago it exploded and started growing very quickly. The growth only stopped early yesterday evening around 5pm Moscow time when the overall total number of zombies was about 14000! The botnet is mostly targeting machines in Russia, maybe this explains why its growth slowed during what is night-time in the Russian Federation.We detect the Trojan which is used to spread the infection as Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Small.ehe.”]
Source: https://securelist.com/botnet-grinds-to-a-halt/30362/