Serious crime unit flags Virgin botnet infections

[Simon]

The Serious Organised Crime Agency has helped Virgin Media spot 1,500 customers whose computers had been compromised with a bank password-stealing trojan.

Virgin Media worked with SOCA for several months on tracking down infected customers, and has now written to subscribers who have been infected with the SpyEye trojan to warn them of the dangers.

The ISP stressed that it wasn't tracking users or monitoring their connections, and said the infections had actually been spotted by SOCA in its ongoing investigations into botnets.

Read more: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/368125/serious-crime-unit-flags-virgin-botnet-infections

[Gary]

Somehow I think we are monitored online more than we would ever like to think about by various organisations who really do not have out good at heart...

[pctech]

Possibly right Gary but I'd have thought Virgin's Network Operations Centre would have noticed the odd traffic patterns.