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Dark Reading, a part of TechWeb, reports Trusteer and AVG have identified new botnets with different features, both built on Zeus technology. Zeus, a Trojan horse that spreads botnets quickly, can be adapted for multiple purposes. “The botnet appears to be controlling more than 100,000 infected computers, 98 percent of which are U.K. Internet users,” Trusteer says. “The criminals have been harvesting all manner of potentially lucrative and revenue-producing credentials, including online account IDs, plus login information to banks, credit and debit card numbers, account types plus balances, bank statements, browser cookies, client side certificates, login information for email accounts and social networks, and even FTP passwords.”