BEWARE! Another new computer virus known as "Kneber botnet" attacked and hit almost 75,000 computers in 2,500 organizations around the world which compromises user accounts of popular social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, Hotmail especially commercial and government systems including 68,000 corporate login credentials, access email systems and online banking sites.
NetWitness, an Internet Security firm announced the newly found virus as a threat which was first discovered in January during a routine deployment of NetWitness software.
The later virus known as "Kneber botnet" gathers login credentials to online financial systems, social networking sites and email systems from infested computers and reports the information back to hackers, New Witness stated. NetWitness further stated a botnet is an army of infected computers that hackers can control from a central machine.
"Conventional malware protection and signature-based intrusion detection systems are, by definition, inadequate for addressing Kneber or most other advanced threats," Chief Executive Amit Yoran said in a statement.
2 comments:
new virus again.. we need to make sure our anti virus programs are up to date..
just blog hopping verity..
take care..
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