An RSA study released on Wednesday claims that most major U.S. corporations — including up to 88% of Fortune 500 companies — may be affected by botnet activity from computers compromised by the Zeus Trojan.
In the article, “88 percent of firms show Zeus botnet activity,” RSA’s FraudAction Anti-Trojan services analyzed data stolen by Zeus from infected computers that included IP addresses and emails that belonged to the corporations. Among the stolen data found on the sites where infected computers drop the stolen data was compromised email addresses from about 60% of the firms. Continue reading this post…