Top companies infected with botnet

Have your users been receiving phishing emails lately, the ones that purport to be from cell phone companies, social networking sites, banks and others with whom many of them do business?  Your own company could be involved in sending them, without anyone’s knowledge. A security researchers with Dell Secureworks reported at Black Hat last week that over half of the top 20 Fortune 500 companies are infected with the “Gameover” Zeus botnet, the largest financial botnet in operation, which has compromised as many as 1.5 million systems world-wide.

Read more about it here:

http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerability-management/167901026/security/attacks-breaches/240004672/more-than-half-of-top-20-fortune-500-firms-infected-with-gameover-zeus-botnet.html

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