Security vendor Finjan Inc. uncovered a network of 1.9 million Trojan horses running on corporate, government and consumer computers around the world. Almost half the victims appear to be in the U.S. The malware is remotely controlled by hackers who use them to deliver almost any command on the end-user computer as they see fit. The bad guys can make $190,000 a day for renting a botnet of 1,000 hijacked computers for $100-$200 a day. Newer botnets are using strong cryptography to protect command-and-control centers.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2124000/usa–and-ie–number-1-for-botnet-mayhem.html