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Small Businesses targeted by Zeus Botnet

There has been a growing trend of fraudulent wire transfers from small businesses and government entities to overseas locations.

Most of these fraudulent activities require the attacker to compromise the target computer, install a keylogger, retrieve the information from the keylogger, and force the victim to answer banking security questions.

A significant part of this growing threat to online banking customers is due to the appearance of the Zeus Botnet. Generally speaking, a botnet is a group of computers, all infected with the same malicious software, all controlled by an attacker, and used for various malicious purposes. The Zeus Botnet, also referred to as Zbot, is a large but fractured botnet controlled by many independent users. The Zeus software allows attackers to create and customize their own malware package. Computers infected by the Zeus malware feed banking and online financial information back to the owners of that particular botnet.

Keep yourself and your company from becoming the next victim of the Zeus botnet by reading the cyber security "best practices" for businesses and individual users recommended by the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC).