Another Zeus botnet seizes 60GB confidential database
According to the security investigators at AVG an anti-virus vendor, a fresh variant of Zeus botnet has stolen over 60GB of sensitive, private data out of 55,000 PCs it compromised and controlled. The new Zeus botnet named 'Mumba' is very small but deploys crimeware and phishing websites in bulk.
A report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group a few months back in 2010 states that the infamous Avalanche Group, which was behind 66% of the total phishing assaults during July-December 2009, carried out the data-theft activity.
Wrote AVG inside a research paper published on August 2, 2010, the criminals were extremely sophisticated while online as well as perfectly deployed crimeware and phishing websites via a bulk-generation arrangement.
