CLAMPI RUNS RAMPANT

By D.E.Levine

At the Black Hat Conference earlier this fall, researchers from SecureWorks reported that the Clampi Trojan botnet has infected as many as a million machines.

The Trojan botnet is designed to steal login information for paying bills online at 4,600 sites that include banks, financial institutions such as mortgage companies , and other sites.

The researchers reported that Clampi spreads faster than other data-stealing Trojans, infecting computers through a drive-by web exploit and then attempts to spread to all the other nodes of the network.

Security companies are developing and redeveloping a method for locating, identifying and quarantining the botnet.