Kneber Botnet Strikes, Targets Gov't Agencies

Batblue writes "A botnet fingered for stealing a treasure trove of information last year has struck again, harvesting sensitive documents from dozens of government agencies and contractors, according to a pair of security experts. The botnet, dubbed 'Kneber' by Alex Cox, principal research analyst at NetWitness, was behind a campaign of fake Christmas e-mails waged two weeks ago against government workers. NetWitness deals in advanced threat detection technologies, and conducts post mortem network forensics for firms that have been hit with attacks or data breaches."

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These are the people who run our government

[MoldySpore]

Yes, the same people that run our government are the same noobs who click fake eCards and run random .exe files attached to emails. Can ANYONE still wonder why our government is so screwed up, especially when it comes to technology and the laws/policies surrounding it?

Re:These are the people who run our government

[Anonymous Coward]

While I agree in part with your sentiment, the government employee pool is one and the same with the private sector pool. Target this attack to a private sector company and I'd bet similar results would occur.