According to the Washington Post larger computer attack is never carried out: even though it was not discovered until now, began in January 2008 and involved 196 countries, 75,000 between PCs and servers violated and 2,500 companies. The merit of the discovery goes to Alex Cox, an official Netwittness, which has identified the bot Kneper , responsible infection that has opened the doors of so many systems.
To obtain your goal, Kneper has made use of ' help users of the affected companies that lightly, they have installed on their PC without knowing what they were doing.
The damage caused by intrusions have not yet been quantified and is not yet clear which and how much data was stolen . We only know that among the affected companies are big names such as pharmaceutical companies Merck & Co and Cardinal Health and the Paramount film, while the list of most affected countries is headed by Saudi Arabia, Mexico, USA, Egypt and Turkey.
Moreover, it appears that some U.S. government agencies have been affected by the theft of data even from mail account military, the Pentagon has so far answered the questions without any comment.
As managers, surveys point to Eastern Europe and China .
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