A very new type of computer virus is known to have Attacked 2,500 different organizations around the globe and get access to around 75,000 computers. According to a report by Internet security firm NetWitness this attack including user accounts of popular social network websites. The latest virus known as "Kneber Botnet" gathers login credentials to online financial systems, social networking sites and email systems from infested computers and reports the information back to hackers, NetWitness said in a statement. A botnet is an army of infected computers that hackers can control from a central machine. As company informs the attack was first discovered in January during a routine deployment of NetWitness software. Further investigation by the Herndon, Virginia-based software security firm revealed that many commercial and government systems were compromised, including 68,000 corporate login credentials and access to email systems, online banking sites, Yahoo, Hotmail and social networks such as Facebook.
Chief Executive Amit Yoran said in a statement that Conventional malware protection and signature-based intrusion detection systems are, by definition, inadequate for addressing Kneber or most other advanced threats.
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