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Koobface Gang Uses Facebook to Spread Powerful Worm
- Zarathust 15y agoNo need for SOPA to combat this kind of cybercrime. DNS takedown may slow these guys down but it would not stop anything.
- pilom 15y agoSOPA doesn't fight cybercrime! It attempted to allow US authorities to block access to people who provided counterfeit or unlicensed copywritten work. That's all.
- jaylevitt 15y agoThe pharma counterfeiters ARE the botnet herders ARE the credit card rings. And counterfeit drugs would have fallen under SOPA. SOPA was a horrible idea, of course. But yes, any anti-counterfeiting laws can also be cybercrime laws.
- teyc 15y agoCompanies like Microsoft have worked with ISPs to take down botnet command and control. All this without needing new regulations.
- daeken 15y agoWhat does SOPA have to do with this? SOPA is meant to battle copyright and trademark infringement, not 'cybercrime' in general. Making SOPA into something that it's not isn't an effective way to fight it.
- nhangen 15y agoA sniper rifle would do a much better job.
- daeken 15y agoI hate to be that guy, but really? You're suggesting that people be killed for supposedly infecting machines and spreading malware? They should be brought to justice; that's not the same as murder.
- nhangen 15y agoI'm not suggesting it, but I wouldn't be upset if it happened. These people are scum in my book.
- feralchimp 15y ago"Efforts to contact members of the group for comment have been unsuccessful." Okay okay, but what would they have said? 'Our efforts to pwn n00bs / go shopping / pay off local cops have been GREAT SUCCESS!' 'At least we're not Paypal.'
- sunchild 15y agoI love that they use Macs to make malware.
- Vivtek 15y agoThe Koobface gang’s freedom underscores how hard it is to apprehend international computer criminals Oh, yes - the problem is the international criminals who run botnets, not the poor hapless American ISPs who somehow just can't do anything about identified botnet hosts. If only there were some way for the American government to be given tools to protect defenseless Americans from evildoers abroad!
- verroq 15y agoIt doesn't take much to write the next "fake spyware scanner 2012", just tedious.
- zalew 15y agoThe group cleverly harnessed the infrastructures of powerful online services — from Facebook and Twitter to Google’s search engine and Blogger — to do the heavy lifting, and may have run its enterprise with just a few computers. Some time ago there was a curious thread on Reddit, about multiple accounts and subreddits with thousands of posts looking like hash strings, somebody suggested those were encrypted instructions for botnets.
- ranit8 15y agoRelevant links: http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2012/01/whos-behind-koobface-botnet-osint.html http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2012/01/whos-behind-koobface-bo... http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/koobface/ http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/koobface/