virus On January 26 last, the NetWitness , a company that deals with electronic security and provides its services to many companies including some U.S. government agencies, has discovered the "Kneber botnet" a new type of virus that thanks to a system of interlaced back to the data server can access online financial accounts of social networks and email.

It 'was defined by the Washington Post the biggest hacker attack ever recorded to date and involved as many as 75,000 computers than 2,500 organizations in 196 countries.

Among the companies that have been plagued by this new virus also pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. and Cardinal Health Inc., which confirmed the attack, and a giant like Paramount Pictures.

The administrator officer of NetWitness, Amit Yoran has affermanto that "traditional security systems are inadequate when one is faced with viruses advanced as it was this."

Source: Reuters