Zombies take hold of London
London is the zombie capital of the world, with approximately 150,000 PCs secretly controlled by hackers, Symantec has revealed.
And the UK - thanks mostly to the rapid growth of broadband - is officially the worst bot-infected place on the globe. Somewhat bizarrely the obscure city of Winsford in Cheshire is the world's second biggest hotspot for zombies, according to Symantec, followed by Seoul in Korea. The anti-virus company estimates that nearly a third of the between one and two million computers worldwide infected with the bot software are now located in the UK. Eight percent of them alone are in London, according to Dean Turner, senior manager of the Symantec Security Response team.
"Bot networks are valuable for a couple of reasons: One, because they allow for extremely rapid propagation, and two, because they provide a relatively high level of anonymity for providing attacks," he said.
