Every second 18 computers worldwide are part of botnet armies, which amounts to over 500 million compromised computers per year. Botnet allows its operator to steal personal and financial information, get into system owners’ bank accounts, steal millions of credit cards, shut down websites, monitor your every keystroke and can even activate systems’ cameras secretly which can take users’ at great risk. FBI chief Joseph Demarest said the news is troubling as the botnets’ high infection rate costs the US and global economies billions of dollars.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2014/07/fbi-botnets-infecting-18-computers-per.html