Mousey
Ueber Meister Mouse
- Joined
- Sep 12, 2004
- Location
- Up$hitCreek
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By Mark Long,
A researcher at security software firm Kaspersky Labs has uncovered a sophisticated botnet threat that already controls more than 4.5 million Windows-based PCs around the world, with nearly one-third of all infected machines located in the United States. Moreover, there is reason to believe that the latest strain of TDSS uncovered this week -- which commands the infected PCs to run malware programs -- will be able to evolve over time.
According to Kaspersky researcher Sergey Golovanov, the new TDSS strain is the most sophisticated cybersecurity threat facing PC users today. It's even designed to delete other malicious programs not associated with the TDSS botnet, to eliminate the competition as well as...