Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via InfoWorld.

[snip]

Spyware researchers at Webroot Software. have uncovered a stash of tens of thousands of stolen identities from 125 
countries that they believe were collected by a new variant of a Trojan horse program the company is calling 
Trojan-Phisher-Rebery.

The FBI is investigating the stolen information, which was discovered on a password-protected FTP (File Transfer 
Protocol) server in the U.S. and is believed to be connected to a Trojan horse that is installed from the Web site 
teens7(dot)com. The information, organized by country, includes names, phone numbers, social security numbers, and user 
log-ins and passwords for tens of thousands of Web sites, according to information provided to InfoWorld by Webroot.

The discovery is just the latest evidence of rampant identity theft by online criminals who use malicious Web sites, 
common software vulnerabilities and keylogging software to harvest information from unsuspecting Web surfers.

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More:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/05/09/78139_HNTrojanrebery_1.html

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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