Though security experts described the hacking trio as “relatively unskilled cyber criminals,” they managed to use Mariposa — the Spanish word for butterfly — to steal account login information for social media sites, online e-mail services, user names and passwords to banking accounts and credit card data by infiltrating more than 12.7 million compromised personal, corporate and government IP addresses in more than 190 countries.
Email Article Print Article Comment on this article Share Articles Digg del.icio.us Newsvine Facebook Google LinkedIn MySpace Reddit Slashdot StumbleUpon Technorati Twitter Windows Live YahooBuzz FriendFeed “Our preliminary analysis indicates that the botmasters did not have advanced hacking skills,” Pedro Bustamante, Panda Security’s senior research advisor, said in a blog posting detailing the attacks and subsequent investigation.
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