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100,000 host BotNet  |  (2005/10/10 09:00)

Apparently 3 Dutch hackers managed to build a botnet containing 100,000 machines and had been using it for DDOS attacks as well as to harvest financial info and site credentials (PayPal and eBay for example). The Register has the full story

The interesting thing is that when you get to botnets of this size, the usual large company defense against DDOS attacks, excess capacity, may not be enough.

A 10,000 node botnet can do about 1-2Gb of traffic, a 100,000 node net should be able to deliver >10Gb.
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