Tuesday, June 30, 2009

New Trojan stealing FTP credentials, attacking FTP websites

Security researchers have discovered a new Trojan that has harvested as many as 80,000 unique FTP server logins and is now beginning to target domains, injecting malicious scripts into compromised FTP sites.

o far up to 74,000 unique FTP sites are affected, according to security vendor Prevx, which discovered a server containing the FTP credentials. The list of FTP websites contains some high profile names, including software resellers of security vendors Symantec and McAfee, Bank of America, Amazon.com and others have been compromised.

Click on the below link to read more:

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1360524,00.html?track=sy160#

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