ZeuS: ‘A Virus Known as Botnet’
Summary: NetWitness reported that a ZeuS Trojan botnet it named "Kneber" had infected more than 2,500 corporations and 75,000 computers worldwide, drawing uncritical coverage from The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and PBS Newshour. Krebs noted that ZeuS botnets have numbered in the hundreds at any given time, with nearly 700 command-and-control centers online according to ZeuStracker, and that McAfee and Symantec both said Kneber was not new and not even among the larger botnets.
What you should know: McAfee reported that just under four million newly infected machines joined botnets in the last three months of 2009, so a 75,000-machine botnet is routine volume rather than a singular event - and Krebs points to organized criminals using ZeuS to steal tens of millions of dollars from small- to mid-sized businesses, governments and non-profits.
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