2016 was a busy year for existing and emerging cyber threats. In the past year, Spamhaus researchers issued listings for over 7,000 botnet Command & Control (“C&C”) servers on more than 1,100 different networks. These C&C servers enabled and controlled online crime such as credential theft, e-banking
fraud, spam and DDoS attacks. They were also used for the retrieval of stolen data. 2016 will also go down in history as the first year that security issues related to the “Internet of Things” (IoT) not only became mainstream, but turned into a serious enabler of ever larger attacks and a source of many
future problems.

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from The Spamhaus Project authored by The Spamhaus Team. Read the original post at: https://www.spamhaus.org/resource-hub/botnet-c-c/spamhaus-botnet-summary-2016