Tuesday, February 9, 2010

NSA , Government And Military Computer Networks Targetted By Hackers

Zeus Attack Spoofs NSA, Targets .gov and .mil -- Krebs On Security

Criminals are spamming the Zeus banking Trojan in a convincing e-mail that spoofs the National Security Agency. Initial reports indicate that a large number of government systems may have been compromised by the attack.

According one state government security expert who received multiple copies of the message, the e-mail campaign — apparently designed to steal passwords from infected systems — was sent exclusively to government (.gov) and military (.mil) e-mail addresses.

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My Comment: This is a one nasty and sneaky Troja. To all of my gov., mil., and nsa readers .... watch out.

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