Facebook Security, FBI Take Down Butterfly Botnet, Arrest 10

Facebook’s security team is being lauded by the FBI for its role the arrest of 10 individuals accused of spreading banking malware on the social networking site and collecting more than $850 million from fraudulent transactions. The arrests were carried out yesterday in the U.S., U.K., the Balkan...

Ryan Naraine on the Koobface Expose and SCADA 0-Day Disclosures

Dennis Fisher talks with long-lost Threatpost editor Ryan Naraine about the intricacies of the disclosure of the identities of the alleged Koobface gang members, whether we’ll see more of that kind of action and whether the recent trend toward disclosing 0-days in SCADA systems will continue...

Was the Koobface Expose the Right Move?

Just as a stand-up comedian carefully places his punch line at the end of the joke, I also usually leave my conclusions for the end of a post. Except for this time. This time, I would like to start with the conclusion: For an ongoing investigation not to be jeopardized, it is extremely important...

Koobface Gang Shuts Down C&C Server, Drops Offline

The crew behind the Koobface worm, who have been quite open about their exploits and financial gains from their work in the past, now seem to be ducking underground as pressure is building on them in the wake of exposures of their operation and real identities. The command-and-control server used...

Koobface Gang Apparently Hiding in Plain Sight

The individuals allegedly responsible for wreaking havoc on Facebook with the infamous Koobface botnet are living lavishly, blatantly flaunting their ill-gotten gains and taking little precautions to cover their tracks. Their locations, travels, business ventures, social media personas, Internet...

Malware Exploding, Especially On Mobile Devices !

Mobile malware is growing, and Adobe is the main vector of attack, according to new figures from security firm McAfee, which were published on Tuesday. Cybercriminals are adopting strategies to benefit from a more mobile device users in the report, McAfee Threat Report: Fourth Quarter 2010...

Facebook's Future: More Koobfaces

VANCOUVER – Working as Facebook’s resident malware researcher is a lonely job, for now. But Nick Bilogorskiy doesn’t expect it to stay that way. In fact, Facebook’s biggest security challenge will be building up its capabilities to identify and tamp down malware infections like the 2009 Koobface...

Koobface: Hit Down in HK, Gets Up in China

Security experts in Hong Kong last week succeeded in taking down a key component of the Koobface bonnet, only to witness the system popping up in China. Read the full article. The Register...

Koobface Worm Doubles C&C Servers in 48 Hours

Yesterday’s shut down of Troyak-as was definitely good news for the whole IT security community. Seeing cybercriminals getting kicked out from the Internet and then trying to get back inside calls for popcorn and soda. But unfortunately, as some botnets struggle, others stay unaffected: Koobface,...

A Closer Look at the Koobface Gang

The Koobface botnet is the tip of the iceberg for the malicious operations of the online crime ring. Here are the top 10 things you didn’t know about the Koobface gang. Read the full article. ZDNet...

Behind the Scenes of the Botnet Epidemic

2009 saw many, many new botnet outbreaks and advancements in their criminal management. Throughout the year Damballa tracked thousands of distinct criminal operated botnets and identified millions of newly compromised enterprise systems each day. This week I’m going to share some of our findings...

Video Hides Koobface on Facebook Wall Posts

A particular variant of the Koobface worm — dubbed Koobface.GK – initiates by posting malicious links on Facebook wall pages enticing folks to click on a cutesy Christmas video. Read the full article. The Last Watchdog...

Koobface Stocking Stuffer Malware

The Koobface botnet, one of the most efficient social engineering driven botnets, is entering the Xmas season with a newly introduced template spoofing a YouTube video page, in between enticing the visitor into installing a bogus Adobe Flash Player Update New Koobface campaign spoofs Adobe’s Flas...

SEO Scareware Campaign Compromises 200K Websites

Security researchers have detected a massive blackhat SEO search engine optimization campaign consisting of over 200,000 compromised web sites, all redirecting to fake security software Inst58s6.exe, commonly referred to as scareware. The massive blackat SEO campaign has been launched by the same...

Google Reader Used in Koobface Attack

The attackers behind the insidious Koobface worm have taken to using Google Reader accounts that they control to spread the worm through shared Reader items. The infection method–which has been used before by Facebook worms–is another indication of the resilience and changing tactics the malware...

New Koobface Campaign Spoofs Adobe's Flash Updater

The botnet masters behind the most efficient social engineering driven botnet, Koobface, launched a new campaign currently spreading across Facebook with a new template spoofing Adobe’s Flash updater embedded within a fake YouTube page. Read the full story zdnet.com/Dancho Danchev...

Worm Attacks Reddit

The rash of attacks on social networking sites is continuing, this time in the form of a cross-site scripting worm that is currently plaguing Reddit, the popular social bookmarking portal. The Reddit attack is interesting in that it requires a minimum of user interaction in order to spread. The...

Talking Koobface with Ivan Macalintal

At the Virus Bulletin 2009 conference,Trend Micro security researcher Ivan Macalintal talks to Threatpost editor Ryan Naraine about the intricacies of the Koobface attack. See more on this story here...

Koobface, Twitter Attacks Growing More Sophisticated

GENEVA — The attacks and scams that have been affecting users of Facebook, Twitter and other popular social networking sites are continuing to evolve and improve, as the attackers learn more about their victims and refine their tactics, experts say. The poster child for these attacks has been the...

Twitter Suspends Accounts of Users With Infected Computers

From IDG News Service Jeremy Kirk Twitter is suspending the accounts of some users whose computers have fallen victim to a well-known piece of malicious software that has targeted other sites such as Facebook and MySpace. The malware, Koobface, is designed to spread itself by checking to see if...