After a quiet(ish) end to 2020 in Spamhaus’ botnet world, the first quarter of this year kicked off in style. The major news surrounded the takedown of the Emotet botnet in January. Nonetheless, as one malware departs, others arrive on the scene, as proved by the 24% increase in the total number of botnet C&Cs Spamhaus researchers observed.

*** 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/botnet-threat-update-q1-2021