Ice IX is a bot created using the source code of ZeuS 2.0.8.9, which became publicly available in May. The author of the new bot says the program includes substantial enhancements, which should be interesting to those cybercriminals who steal money from users with the help of banking Trojans. The botnet is based on a malicious program called Ice IX, which has been created by the author of a C&C server found by Jorge Mieres.”]