Tue, May 26 2009 17:52
Don
Koobface - On The Run Again
Websense Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has
monitored Koobface since it started spreading back in 2008.
Since its inception, Koobface has been spreading via Facebook,
Friendster, MySpace, hi5, Bebo, and other social networking sites.
This past week, Koobface attempted another running campaign on Facebook.
If infected, Facebook users start to spam their friends with a link
to a malicious Web site. When users visit the link, they are redirected
various malicious and phishing pages. We detected these on numerous .be
domains and TinyURL links. One such malicious page is a fake YouTube
page that appears to be a funny video. The page tells visitors to to
upgrade their Flash player in order to play the video, and the Flash
setup program is actually Koobface malware.
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