A recent article from ArsTechnica caught my attention with its title - "Almost all Fortune 500 companies show Zeus botnet activity." For those of you who don't know, a botnet is a network of comprised computers that do whatever a master computer orders them to do. In addition, the Zeus trojan logs the keystrokes in an attempt to steal bank, social networking, and email accounts.
The scary part is that so many companies are affected by this 2007 trojan, which technologically-speaking is dated. Consumers should be especially concerned, because their information could be stored and therefore stolen from those company computers.
Now for the funny part... the owners of the Zeus control servers get paid quite a bit for their services, which range from data mining to dos attacks on corporate rivals' servers. That has made them prime targets for other hackers, who want to get in on the money. Ironic... isn't it?
Via ArsTechnica
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