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Koobface Rears Up… Begins Google News Spamvertising |
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Source: InfoSecurity - Posted by Alex
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News, of the latest iteration of the Koobface Botnet, has hit the blogosphere. Utilizing client based attack vectors, this evil bit of badness can’t be much worse.. More information, direct from respected researcher Dancho Danchev and inclusive of apropos linkage, appears after the jump.
From Dancho Danchev’s blog post: “Koobface Botnet Starts Serving Client-Side Exploits“
UPDATED, Saturday, November 28, 2009: Following yesterday’s experiment with bit.ly redirectors, relying on a “visual social engineering element” by adding descriptive domains after the original link — bit.ly/588dmE?YOUTUBE.COM/ea05981d43, which works with any generated bit.ly link, the gang is now spamvertising links using Google News redirection to automatically registered Blogspot accounts, whose CAPTCHA challenge has been solved by the already infected with Koobface victims, a feature that is now mainstream, compared to the gang’s previous use of commercial CAPTCHA solving services, where the price for a thousand solved CAPTCHAs varies between $1 and $2:
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