Business Beware- Security News-June 2009

BitDefender Undercover New  " Malware-Spreading Vectors"- methods that are being used to infect Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, allowing dangerous malware to enter a business' network and compromise its security. The most recent example was the conflicker worm, which spread to millions of computers by using multiple infection vectors, including Microsoft Windows RPC service exploit, brute forcing weak  administrator passwords, and copying itself to removable drives. 

A business network can be infected even when it is not connected to the Internet-malware can be brought into a business network by a single employee who accesses the internet outside the office, gets infected, and brings the worm to work with a USB stick. Through these vectors, cyber-criminals can harvest sensitive data quickly and easily. Onec a network has been infiltrated, Trojans and adware listen to all the trafic carefully, filtering out online banking accounts, credit card details or computer-related data like OS version, harware details, or software licenses. All this information is either sold or used for monitoring purposes in order to prepare for more targeted attacks. Examples for such e-threats are WhenU, SaveNow and Trojan.Banker, LCG.