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Mumba Botnet harvested 55,000 computers – AVG Research |
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 AVG Technologies, which makes the free anti-virus software of the same name, has published a report by the AVG Web Security Research Team that identified a global network of 55,000 malware-infected computers infected by the Mumba botnet. The report said that a third of the infected PCs are in the US, with other affected nations being Germany, Spain, UK, Mexico and Canada.The report has found that the Mumba botnet stole over 60GB of user's personal data including credentials from social networking sites, banking account details, credit card numbers and email communication. The United States had the highest share of PCs infected by the Mumba botnet (33 percent), followed by Germany (17 percent), Spain (7 percent), United Kingdom (6 percent), Mexico and Canada (both 5 percent). "The unique infrastructure of the Mumba botnet means that going after the servers hosting the stolen data is now much more difficult than before,” said Yuval Ben-Itzhak, senior vice president at AVG. Mumba was created by one of the most sophisticated group of cybercriminals on the Internet known as the Avalanche Group, AVG said. The group perfected a mass-production system for deploying phishing sites and data stealing malware. Mumba uses the latest version of Zeus, currently one of the most common malwares. |
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