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UNCOVERED: Botnets responsible for nearly all malicious web traffic - Caught on Camera

Magnifying glass enlarging the word 'malware' in computer machine code

Almost all malicious traffic that happens on the wider internet is coming from botnets, a new research report published by cybersecurity researchers from Trustwave has claimed.

In their report, Trustwave’s experts wrote that after analyzing “vast amounts” of data from more than 38,000 unique IP addresses, and after obtaining 1,100 unique payloads served in attacks, they found that almost 19% of all recorded web traffic was malicious. 

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