In what is now becoming a worryingly familiar story, zero so-called "a third-detection" threat has been discovered within just the last three weeks; this latest form of dangerous malware is called Latentbot and is almost impossible to detect in the wild. It has the capacity to take control of systems, steal data, monitor its victims and corrupt a hard drive thereby making it useless. Since mid-2013 it has targeted organisations such as banks and insurance companies in at least nine countries, including the US, UK, Brazil, UAE and Canada.
In what is now becoming a worryingly familiar story, a third so-called "zero-detection" threat has been discovered within just the last three weeks; this latest form of dangerous malware is called Latentbot and is almost impossible to detect in the wild. It has the capacity to take control of systems, steal data, monitor its victims and corrupt a hard drive thereby making it useless. Since mid-2013 it has targeted organisations such as banks and insurance companies in at least nine countries, including the US, UK, Brazil, UAE and Canada.