Zeus Trojan infects 74,000 PCs in global botnet
Summary
More than 74,000 PCs at nearly 2,500 organizations around the world were compromised over the past year-and-a-half, in a botnet infestation designed to steal login credentials to bank sites, social networks and email systems.
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More than 74,000 PCs at nearly 2,500 organizations around the world were compromised over the past year-and-a-half, in a botnet infestation designed to steal login credentials to bank sites, social networks and email systems, a security firm said on Wednesday.
The systems were infected with the Zeus Trojan, and the botnet was dubbed 'Kneber' after a username that linked the infected PCs on corporate and government systems, according to NetWitness.
See also: Zeus crimeware using Amazon's EC2 as command and control server
The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Merck, Cardinal Health, Paramount Pictures and Juniper Networks were among the targets in the attack. NetWitness speculated that criminals in Eastern Europe using a command-and-control server in Germany sent attachments containing the malware in emails or links to the malware on websites that employees within the companies clicked on.
For more on this story, read Zeus Trojan found on 74,000 PCs in global botnet on CNET News.
Talkback Most Recent of 52 Talkback(s)
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Not MY PC
Mine runs a Unix-based operating system.
davebarnes18th Feb 2010 -
You run PC-BSD too?
That is great to hear.
Loverock Davidson18th Feb 2010 -
Hey explain to me why Unix and all derivatives
are more vulnerable than Windows?
Bring it on, and I'll flatten all your arguments with facts. No FUD. No BS.
I said bring it on!
WinTard18th Feb 2010 -
And we care because ... ???
Oh, that's right, we don't.
Hallowed are the Ori18th Feb 2010 -
Same here.
My Ubuntu machines just sail past malware completely unharmed.
The Mentalist18th Feb 2010 -
Funny, same here too!
My Windows machines just sail past malware completely unharmed.WinTard18th Feb 2010 -
Isn't Fantasy land a wonderful place?
Too bad those people stuck in the real world can't have it as easy as you.The Mentalist18th Feb 2010 -
WinTard18th Feb 2010
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You're claiming a reality that completely contradicts real world reports
made by real human beings.
That says it all.The Mentalist18th Feb 2010 -
You show me your links, I'l show you mine. {nt}
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
~ AristotleWinTard18th Feb 2010 -
The Mentalist18th Feb 2010
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Fair is fair, here's my links on the very topic
Google: http://www.google.com/search?q=Linux+botnet
Results 1 - 10 of about 589,000 for Linux botnet. (0.26 seconds)
On topic eh?
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You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
~ George Herbert, 1593-1633, English Clergyman and Metaphysical PoetWinTard18th Feb 2010 -
Food for thought
Google: http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+botnet
Results 1 - 10 of about 3,450,000 for windows botnet. (0.22 seconds)
See? it took only 0.22 seconds to find 3,450,000 results for windows while it took more to find seven times less for Linux. Even though Linux has a larger server market share it still is hardly touched by malware, if at all. Amazing isn't it?
It's real hard to find something wrong with Linux isn't it? I guess windows does make your life easier (at least for google bot it does.)
On topic eh?
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You have to be a moron to add those lines at the bottom of your talkbacks. They look stupid.
~ The Mentalist, Earthling and all around good guy.The Mentalist18th Feb 2010 -
With your logic of 90 to 1
How come the Google search doesn't return 90x more for Windows+botnet? (Than Linux that is?)
Well, as for the quotes, I like them. That is sufficient for me. If it annoys you, why do you read them?
Seems crazy to me?
And frankly I don't care about appearances... I do not believe in superficiality, rather substance.
How else could I have chosen such a pejorative nickname?
I've got chutzpah! Yeah!
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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
~ Wayne Dyer, American motivational Speaker and Author of self-help best selling books. b.1940
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
~ Wayne Dyer, American motivational Speaker and Author of self-help best selling books. b.1940WinTard18th Feb 2010 -
Linux dominates server market and yet has a tiny fraction of sever malware
On the desktop malware incidents should be 90 windows to 1 Linux but on the Server Linux should have more incidents.
But we don't see that happen in real life, do we? Why is that?The Mentalist18th Feb 2010
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