Presto Vivace's Journal: Finjan uncovers a 1.4 gigabyte cache of stolen data

Crimeware server exposes breadth of data theft

Last month Researchers at online security company Finjan uncovered a 1.4 gigabyte cache of stolen data from North America, Europe, the Middle East and India on a Malaysian server that provided command and control functions for malware attacks in addition to being a drop site for data harvested from compromised computers.

"This is a unique example of what we have been talking about for the last year," said Yuval Ben-Itzhak, chief technical officer at Finjan. Online thieves are using sophisticated tools to plant malicious code on legitimate Web pages, compromising visiting PCs and stealing data.

That is quite a find. Glad to know someone is trying to do something about this.