Kneber Botnet - The New Virus. Beware of this Malware from hacking your facebook and banking accounts.

Beware all the net users! The latest version of internet virus ‘Kneber’ botnet is out there and is causing havoc by stealing your login credentials of various sites.
According to reports provided by the security farm Netwitness, the Conficker worm, the virus detected last year, is only a kiddo as compared to the potential harmful abilities of Kneber botnet.
          The hacked properties are generally login credentials of e-mail accounts, social networking accounts and banking accounts. The malware is mainly targeting the government and banking infrastructures, but home-users are not immune to the threats either.

         Already the malware has knocked off data from various important corporate and other institutions. Though Netwitness have not revealed the name of the institutions compromised, The Wall street Journal informs Merck & Co., Cardinal Health, Paramount Pictures and software company Juniper Networks Inc to be among the ones getting affected.

Among the top sites from which login credentials have been stolen include Facebook, Yahoo, hi5, metroflog, sonico and netlog.
         Netwitness reports that the botnet campaign has been around for some one year and its effectiveness can be gauged from the fact that it has been able to hack 68,000 login credentials over a 4-week period.
        
     As of now, the only way to avoid being affected seems to be smart net-using. The malware generally convinces you to visit some dubious site or download an e-mail attachment to sneak into your system. So make sure you do not visit any such suspicious links or funny videos and yes, keep your anti-virus programme up-to-date.

 
 
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