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‘Chameleon Botnet’ takes $6-million-a-month in ad money
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An article from Cnet news about Botnet : A newly discovered…

Exposed Devices Used as Botnet to Scan Internet
An article from threat post about botnet: A controversial Internet…

Botnet master abuses Facebook for pocket money, researchers reveal
An interesting story from Naked Security on botnets: A Chinese…

Spammers Stay Busy Despite Pushdo Botnet Hit
From the shutdown of McColo to last week's disruption of the Pushdo botnet, spammers have continually found ways to stay in business.
Nearly 20 of the 30 command and control (CnC)servers associated with Pushdo were taken offline last week due to efforts by security vendor LastLine. The servers were supported by eight hosting providers, some of which did not respond to the vendor's requests for action.