Just after the arrest of Mariposa malware developer, there is a sad news for me, you and entier internet community that another malware (botnet) is on the move. This botnet is reported by AVG’s team of researchers. AVG released a report indicating that the Mumba botnet malware has infected more than half a 1 million machines.
This botnet is far stranger than other kind of malware, what it does is, it steals your personal data. At a rough estimate Mumba botnet can steal 60GB of your personal data including your bank account details, credit card numbers etc.
Now lets have a look at the countries where Mumba has shown its magic. In United States, Mumba hacked 1/3rd of the machines, percentage is round about 33. Europe is also the victim of Mumba botnet, countries like Germany, Spain and United Kingdom stand second, third and fourth accordingly. In Germany Mumba infected 17 percent of the total Pcs, in Spain just 7 per cent in only UK 6 percent machines were infected. There are two other countries Mexico and Canada standing fifth and sixth, both countries share equal 5% of the victims.
I doesn’t mean that people around Europe or Canada are more secure, but the hackers main and the only target is US. I hope you remember the Chinese hackers incident.
I do hope you also remember the Zeus botnet? If you do then you should be clear that Mumba botnet uses the newer version of Zeus, which is 2.0. We reported the Zeus botnet way back in April, which targeted the Adobe Reader, the dead IE and secure Firefox.
I just don’t know why the available antivirus solutions are able to detect Zeus? It means that Mumba is so unique that security firms are unable to detect it.
via [The Inquirer]
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