India sees 280% rise in Bot Infections: Report

India has seen a 280 per cent increase  in bot infections that is continuing to spread to a larger number of emerging cities, claimed the Internet Security Threat Report, Volume 18 (ISTR) released by Symantec Corp on Monday.

Bot infected computer activities can be classified as actively attacking bots or bots that send out spam such as spam zombies.

Spam zombies are remotely controlled, compromised systems specifically designed to send out large volumes of junk or unsolicited email messages. The email messages can be used to deliver malicious code and phishing attempts. Globally, India is ranked first for spam zombies with 17 percent of spam zombies located in the country.

Evidently the country is responsible for disseminating into cyberspace an estimated 280 million spam messages per day.