NetWitness a firm tracking the latest cyber assualts reports a massive coordinated attack.
February 18, 2010 | NetWitness Discovers Massive ZeuS Compromise
“Kneber Botnet” Targets Corporate Networks and Credentials
“HERNDON , VA – February 18, 2010 – NetWitness, the world leader in advanced persistent threat detection and real-time network forensics, announced today that its analysts have discovered a dangerous new ZeuS botnet affecting 75,000 systems in 2,500 organizations around the world. The newly-discovered infestation, dubbed the “Kneber botnet” after the username linking the infected systems worldwide, gathers login credentials to online financial systems, social networking sites and email systems from infested computers and reports the information to miscreants who can use it to break into accounts, steal corporate and government information, and replicate personal, online and financial identities.”
Source: NetWitness
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