The new botnet that puts the potential threat of last year’s Conficker worm to shame is called the Kneber botnet, this new form of malware has infected more than 74000 computer systems across the world and is focused on stealing login credentials for e-mail systems, social networks and banking sites, according to Netwitness. Kneber is incredibly hard to detect and has reportedly compromised data from nearly 2500 corporate and government and corporate networks around the world. Here’s the latest on what’s going on and how you can protect yourself from joining the ranks of the Kneber botnet.
Netwitness says Kneber is a ZeuS Trojan botnet, a type of botnet known for its ability to target and steal key information stored on your computer such as login credentials.

More than half of the computer systems in the Kneber botnet also have the Waledac Trojan–a worm known to create e-mail spam botnets that was recently associated with Conficker.
Netwitness says Kneber controlled machines are in 196 countries. The five countries with the most significant instances of infected machines are Egypt, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United States.
Kneber only targets Windows machines, and computers are running Windows XP Professional SP2 make up the majority of the botnet. Netwitness did not report on infections among Windows 7 machines. Kneber is primarily found on machines in corporate and government infrastructures, but home users can be affected as well.

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