The Skinny on the Kneber Botnet

Alex Cox, Research Consultant and Principal Analyst, NetWitness Alex Cox, a research consultant and principal analyst at the IT security firm NetWitness, discovered last month the Kneber botnet, a variant of the ZueS Trojan that he says has infested 75,000 systems in 2,500 corporate and governmental organizations worldwide. (See Botnet Strikes 2,500 Organizations Worldwide.) In an interview, Cox describes: How the Kneber botnet works. Who the malware targeted. Damage the botnet could cause. Cox was interviewed by Eric Chabrow, GovInfoSecurity.com managing editor.