"A trojan has reportedly been uncovered that is harvesting FTP login
data of major corporations, including the Bank of America, BBC, Amazon,
Cisco, Monster.com, Symantec and McAfee.
According to a report in the Friday edition of The Register,
Jacques Erasmus, CTO at Prevx, an internet security vendor
headquartered in the U.K., discovered a site where a trojan is
uploading FTP login credentials from more than 68,000 websites.
Once an individual's PC is infected with the trojan, that user's stored
FTP login credentials are harvested. An attacker can then login to the
FTP site. The logins are believed to have been stolen during the last
two weeks and some are thought to still be valid. "
Read more: http://www.scmagazineus.com/FTP-login-credentials-at-major-corporations-breached/article/139178/
