Mumba Botnet

A research from Avg anti virus maker released earlier this week and they claim that over 55,000 computers from all over the world are infected with mumba net.these include even government orgainsations .

The report which is prepared by AVG web security research team can be found on Blogs.avg.com

Mumba botnet is a virus that was created by a group of cybercriminals known as the Avalanche Group. The Group is known for creating a mass-production system for phishing sites and other malware. Mumba uses Zeus, one of the most current and common forms of malware.

Zues ia a recently popularised malware used to steal personal information.It has got tricky mechanism to disguse itself from for antimalware Security applications to detect.

According to the report, over 60GB of personal data, such as social networking information, banking information, credit card information, and emails, has been stolen from people's personal and business computers. 

At least 33% of the infected computers are located in the United States, followed by 17% in German, 7% in Spain, 6% in the United Kingdom, and 5% in both Mexico and Canada and the number still may increase.

So beware of this mmbanet keep your system up to date with antiviruses and Antispywares.

Prevent your PCs from becoming the next victim in these dynamic cyber attacks by using anti-virus and LinkScanner tools,antimalwares.