Criminals are starting to realize that they can make use of the compromised work computers they have in their grasp, according to security experts.

By Asavin Wattanajantra, 23 Oct 2009 at 14:45





Thousands of work computers infected with trojans could be a ticking timebomb, according to security researchers.





The RSA Conference in London this week highlighted how criminals had already targeted computers in business networks, thanks to laptops and desktops with trojan infections like Sinowal and Zeus. Uri Rivner, head of new technologies at RSA, said that criminals already had a lot of access to corporate and government data that the bad guys had collected from computers around the world.





‘Not just information that you type, but also information that is flowing in through sessions,” warned Rivner.



“Today, they don’t care about that. They care more about the financial aspects with online banking and credit card fraud. But they are starting to realise that they are sitting on a pot of gold. There are other people that are very interested in this type of information.”

Rivner said there was a lot you could do with this type of data, especially if it was information from a Fortune 500 company.





“That is something that will happen in the coming years,” added Rivner. “The same kind of threats that are hitting the financial sector will start expanding to additional verticals - government, military, the enterprise.”