Researchers tracking a new botnet that has become one of the more active DDoS networks on the Internet since its emergence early last month. The botnet, dubbed Darkness, is being controlled by several domains hosted in Russia and its operators are boasting that it can take down large sites with as few as 1,000 bots. An analysis by Shadowserver found that the Darkness botnet has been used to attack more than 100 targets in the last month or so, with some of them being high-profile e-commerce and financial services sites.
Source: https://threatpost.com/researchers-tracking-emerging-darkness-botnet-120610/74736/