The KOOBFACE gang certainly knows how to bring on the Christmas spirit. KOOBFACE has pushed a new campaign with the help of the new component that we saw deployed last month. The said component executes human-like behavior such as joining
The following warning appeared on the SANS Storm Center. Ignore it at your peril! With the holiday season upon us, lots of folks (me included) have elected to send online greeting cards instead of using traditional paper
Websense Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered that the Koobface malware campaign is now using a Christmas theme. Recent developments by Koobface have included use of Google Reader. The Koobface Web site offers a video posted by 'SantA'. The usual
It's not a huge surprise that we are seeing some malware spam runs where the malicious attachment attempts to portray itself as a Christmas Greeting of some sort.Here's an example from today (md5: C670165AE6DFA8318F0EA795B1D3AD55). This one
McAfee Labs is reporting a new and versatile variant of the Koobface worm.Like some other recent malware, this attack uses Google Reader to host the malware. The user sees a
The KOOBFACE gang certainly knows how to bring on the Christmas spirit. KOOBFACE has pushed a new campaign with the help of the new component that we saw deployed last month. The said component executes human-like behavior such as joining
The following warning appeared on the SANS Storm Center. Ignore it at your peril! With the holiday season upon us, lots of folks (me included) have elected to send online greeting cards instead of using traditional paper
Websense Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered that the Koobface malware campaign is now using a Christmas theme. Recent developments by Koobface have included use of Google Reader. The Koobface Web site offers a video posted by 'SantA'. The usual
It's not a huge surprise that we are seeing some malware spam runs where the malicious attachment attempts to portray itself as a Christmas Greeting of some sort.Here's an example from today (md5: C670165AE6DFA8318F0EA795B1D3AD55). This one
McAfee Labs is reporting a new and versatile variant of the Koobface worm.Like some other recent malware, this attack uses Google Reader to host the malware. The user sees a
Researchers examining the directories of the URLs of some of the latest Koobface runs may stumble upon a Christmas greeting, directed at the security community:
Alex Eckelberry
(with thanks to a researcher who prefers to remain anonymous)
