Posted by: rpawar
on Feb 19, 2010
NetWitness, the world leader in advanced persistent threat detection and real-time network forensics, announced on February 18, 2010 in HERNDON , VA, USA 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, Facebook, Yahoo, Hotmail and other social network credentials 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.
