Researchers simulate million-zombie botnet

SC Magazine reports that scientists working in U.S. Department of energy have been able to create a simulated botnet consisting of more than one million machines.

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in California, headed by Ron Minnich and Don Rudish, were able to boot more than one million kernels, or the central component of most operating systems, as virtual machines in a massive botnet simulation. Previously, researches had only been able to create a simulated botnet of up to 20,000 nodes.

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