March 12th, 2010 by lhaasBotnets are the most significant way that companies are having data stolen outside of employee theft. Services, such as viaForensic’s threatForensics, can help to identify botnets.
Four little-known botnets were behind half of all botnet infiltrations in enterprises last year — and the No. 1 botnet hitting corporate networks carried the infamous Zeus crimeware….
Koobface overall had a surprisingly large representation. The worm, typically spread via social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, was the main malware carried by two additional botnets, Koobface.D (5 percent) and Koobface.C (4 percent). The malware was used as a foot in the door to hijack corporate users’ accounts and to spread among other systems within the organization, according to Gunter Ollmann, vice president of research for Damballa.
via The Top 10 Enterprise Botnets – DarkReading.
