Security experts at TrendMicro have discovered at least 1,300 public Google Reader pages infected with a new Koobface type of attack. Hackers have employed Google Reader accounts to host links redirecting users to a Koobface infected page.Attackers employed Google Reader's possibility to share links and messages... |
10 November 2009
09:20 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that a new Koobface variant is currently making the rounds on Twitter. However, while the lure remains the same, the underlying social engineering has been improved to make them more credible.Koobface is one of the first and, at the same time, one of the most successful, social networking wo... |
7 August 2009
10:02 GMT |
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The creators of the Koobface social networking worm have made a significant change in its botnet infrastructure, in order to make it more resilient to takedown attempts. Meanwhile, the worm, which started plaguing Twitter a few weeks ago, proves very successful in infecting users of the micro blogging platform. Koob... |
24 July 2009
09:53 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that Koobface, the most successful social networking worm to date, has increased its activity on Twitter, to the extent that the website's administration saw it fit to issue an alert via its status page. The staff has also began to suspend the affected accounts and send out notification... |
13 July 2009
08:41 GMT |
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On March 10, 2009, Microsoft released its monthly batch of security bulletins. Accompanying the no less than eight patch releases for Windows is a new version of the Malicious Software Removal Tool. The March 2009 version of MSRT is designed to tackle a worm that the software giant has deemed nothing short of anti-so... |
12 March 2009
07:40 GMT |
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The writers of the Koobface worm that propagates on social networking websites have just released a new variant that is able to trick the security filters enforced by Facebook. In order to achieve this, the new strain makes use of the website's own features against itself. The Koobface worm was first detected b... |
6 December 2008
06:12 GMT |
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