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Gaming Botnet Bleeds Over To The Enterprise

Enterprise-targeted botnets tend to be a different breed make use of enterprise-specific functionality (e.g. being proxy aware and exploiting vulnerabilities over the network that would be blocked by perimeter firewalls) Taterf is a run-of-the-mill botnet focused upon stealing online gaming credentials (such as log-in credentials for World of Warcraft, EverQuest and Aion) From there they infect files and additional hosts, but achieving very little apart from leaving behind a trail of breached assets. At the end of the day, the enterprise network has been breached regardless of the intention of the attackers.

Source: https://threatpost.com/gaming-botnet-bleeds-over-enterprise-111009/73064/

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