Zeus infects UK government computers

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bogdan

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According to a BBC report, Mr. Hague (UK foreign secretary) explained that attackers had infected government computers with the Zeus trojan (Sophos calls Zeus "Zbot") in attacks similar to those on the Department of Homeland Security last June.

Spend some time educating your users that Microsoft Office documents, PDFs and other commonly used file types can be dangerous. If you are not expecting a document, or if you find it out of context, don't open it.

Phone the person who appears to have sent it or use some other out-of-band communications method to confirm the document isn't phony.

source: Sophos blog.
 
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