malicious software--Trojan--recently caused much trouble as it infects over 75,000 corporate computers. around 2,500 organizations world wide were infested by the said botnet.
botnet is a malicious program that can commandeer the operating systems of both residential and corporate computing systems through the internet. these are usually used by cyber criminals who usually send this virus via email spam or by stealing digital documents and password from infected computers.
in recent news regarding the said infestation, Wall Street Journal reported that some of the companies that are said to have the targets of the said attack are Merck,Cardinal Health, Paramount Pictures and Juniper Networks. there are presently specultions from NetWitness that said Eastern Europe who uses command-and-control server in Germany were the one who sent the said Malware via attachment in emails.
NetWitness also reports on their discovery of 75 gigabytes worth of stolen data. this was discoverd during routine analytic tasks as part of their evaluation of client network last January 26. the stolen data includes 68,000 access codes to email systems. banking sites. Facebook. Yahoo, and 2,000 SSL certificate files.
the said attack is one proof of the troubling reality that crime has reached even cyberspace. at this point what seems to be something that has benefited greatly of mankind has been polluted by the same crimes we try to escape from.
botnet is a malicious program that can commandeer the operating systems of both residential and corporate computing systems through the internet. these are usually used by cyber criminals who usually send this virus via email spam or by stealing digital documents and password from infected computers.
in recent news regarding the said infestation, Wall Street Journal reported that some of the companies that are said to have the targets of the said attack are Merck,Cardinal Health, Paramount Pictures and Juniper Networks. there are presently specultions from NetWitness that said Eastern Europe who uses command-and-control server in Germany were the one who sent the said Malware via attachment in emails.
NetWitness also reports on their discovery of 75 gigabytes worth of stolen data. this was discoverd during routine analytic tasks as part of their evaluation of client network last January 26. the stolen data includes 68,000 access codes to email systems. banking sites. Facebook. Yahoo, and 2,000 SSL certificate files.
the said attack is one proof of the troubling reality that crime has reached even cyberspace. at this point what seems to be something that has benefited greatly of mankind has been polluted by the same crimes we try to escape from.
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