A variant of the Zeus bot (Zbot) was found using Amazon’s Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) infrastructure for Command&Control commands to infected machines.
Zbot is a password-stealing software, logs financial data and sends them to the botnet. Last year more than 100M US fraud was linked with Zeus malware variants. It was also held responsible for the “destruction” of 100.000 infected computers by deleting registry key data, making them inoperable. Zeus botnet is estimated to consist of millions of infected computers around the world.
