Criminal hackers have penetrated the networks of almost 2,500 companies and government agencies to steal email passwords, login credentials, and other sensitive data to this day, a computer security company said.
The infections by a variant of the Zeus botnet began in late 2008 and have turned more than 74,000 PCs into remote spying platforms that have siphoned highly proprietary information out of at least 10 federal agencies and thousands of companies, according to research from Net Witness, a Herndon, Virginia-based network forensics firm.
Google disclosed that its network and those of at least 20 other large companies were penetrated by hackers targeting intellectual property.
According to a 75-gigabyte cache of data stolen over a four-week period that the company was able to intercept.
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