Businesses across the globe are becoming increasingly more
aware of cyber crime, and are taking more detailed and efficient steps towards
protecting their valuable data each year. Unfortunately, criminal strategies
improve just as quickly, and become increasingly harder to mitigate. So much
so, that new RSA research shows just how deeply the threat of data breach has
penetrated the business environment.
Elinor Mills at RSA’s FraudAction Anti-Trojan services
recently showed that “88% of the Fortune 500 companies have been accessed to
some extent by computers infected by the Zeus Trojan,” one of the most prolific
key logging programs in recent years. Zeus targets banking information, login credentials
for social networks and e-mail accounts, and spreads primarily through the use
of phishing and drive-by downloading
Thanks to Elinor Mills at Cnet’s
InSecurity Complexblog for bringing the story to our
attention.