Big botnet stealing financial data
According to a report at Computerworld, a large number of PCs have been infected with a Trojan by means of an email attachment or Windows security holes:
A ferocious piece of malware that’s infected up to a million PCs is stealing a “tremendous” amount of financial information from consumers and businesses that log on to their bank, stock broker, credit card, insurance, job hunting and favorite e-shopping sites, a noted botnet researcher said today.
The post continues:
Hackers sneak Clampi onto PCs by duping a user into opening an e-mailed file attachment or by using a multi-exploit toolkit that tries attack code for several different Windows vulnerabilities
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