88 percent of corporations infected by Zeus trojan?

Posted on Sunday, April 18 2010 @ 6:20 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
A new study by RSA claims up to 88 percent of the Fortune 500 companies may be affected by botnet activity from computers infected by the data-stealing Zeus trojan.
RSA's FraudAction Anti-Trojan services analyzed data stolen by Zeus from infected computers in August and traced evidence back to IP addresses and e-mail addresses belonging to the corporations, said Sean Brady, manager of the Identity Protection and Verification Group at RSA, which is the security division of EMC.

Specifically, "domains individually representing 88 percent of the Fortune 500 were shown to have been accessed to some extent by computers infected by the Zeus Trojan," the study said.


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Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.



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