Archive for July 8th, 2009
Koobface worms attacking social networks
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009As social networks become a mainstay, attacks targeting them continue to gain momentum.
The Koobface worms (over 575 new variants identified):
• Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.a
• Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.b
• Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.c
• Etc
Targeted social networking websites (detected):
• Facebook
• MySpace
• Hi5
• Bebo
• Tagged
• Netlog
• Twitter
The Koobface worms come through social networks and transform victims’ machines into zombie computers to form botnets.
It spreads through the legitimate user’s account to their friends. Comments and messages sent by the [...]