RSA Attackers May Have Hit 760 Other Organizations With Similar Malware
The malware used to compromise RSA Security earlier this year may have been used in attacks against more than 700 other organizations, according to a report by security writer and analyst Brian Krebs.
Facebook, Google and eBay are among the 760 organizations that may have been hit by malware that used the same command and control infrastructure as the one used in the RSA breach, security writer Brian Krebs wrote on Krebs On Security on Oct. 24. Of the total list, about 20 percent are considered to be Fortune 100 companies.
The organizations on the list had networks that were compromised with "some of the same resources" used to hit RSA, according to Krebs. The networks were "phoning home" to some of the same C&C servers from the RSA breach, and the first attack could have been as early as November 2010.
