HCL Technologies researchers have found the Zeus botnet “running an unauthorized command and control center on Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing infrastructure,” according to Computerworld’s Robert McMillan.

“The hackers didn’t do this with Amazon’s permission, however,” McMillan writes. “They got onto Amazon’s infrastructure by first hacking into a Web site that was hosted on Amazon’s servers and then secretly installing their command and control infrastructure.”

“Zeus is a password-stealing botnet,” McMillan notes. “Variant of this malware have been linked to more than US$100 million in bank fraud in the past year.”

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