Criminals in South Africa have carried off a cunning remote access heist that has left one of the country’s banks nursing a stunning $5.2 million (42 million Rand) loss. After opening accounts at the South African Postbank months in advance, between 1 and 3 January the gang remotely accessed the…
Koobface Gang That Spread Worm on Facebook Operates in the Open
The Koobface gang, a Russian-based group, has grown wealthy by apparently spreading a computer worm on Facebook and other social networks and cashing in on various schemes. View full post on computer worm – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security » Virus/Malware/Worms
Facebook to name and shame Russian Koobface gang
Facebook could be about to take the unprecedented step of distributing the names of the Russians it believes were behind the Koobface worm that waged an infamous botnet campaign against the site’s users from 2008 onwards. A report in the New York Times said that Facebook would today start circulating…
Koobface Gang Operating in the Open
The men live comfortable lives in St. Petersburg — and have frolicked on luxury vacations in places like Monte Carlo, Bali and, earlier this month, Turkey, according to photographs posted on social network sites — even though their identities have been known for years to Facebook, computer security investigators and…
Exclusive: How five members of the Koobface malware gang were unmasked
The in-depth story of how five men have been identified as part of the Koobface gang, in a detailed investigation conducted by independent researcher Jan Drömer and Dirk Kollberg of SophosLabs. A must-read! View full post on Naked Security – Sophos View full post on National Cyber Security
Koobface Gang Uses Facebook to Spread Powerful Worm
The men live comfortable lives in St. Petersburg — and have frolicked on luxury vacations in places like Monte Carlo, Bali and, earlier this month, Turkey, according to photographs posted on social network sites — even though their identities have been known for years to Facebook, computer security investigators and…
Cybercrime gang Nitro sends malicious emails in Symantec’s name
A cybercrime gang that primarily targets companies from the chemical industry has launched a new series of attacks that involve malware-laden emails purporting to be from Symantec, the security vendor responsible for exposing its operation earlier this year. Dubbed the Nitro attacks, the gang’s original industrial espionage efforts began sometime…
HTCS1: The FBI works with the Bulgarian police to arrest a cyber crime gang. Listen to more at http://t.co/gTnfwWQH
HTCS1: The FBI works with the Bulgarian police to arrest a cyber crime gang. Listen to more at http://t.co/gTnfwWQH View full post on Twitter / HTCS1
FBI disrupts search hijack gang after $14 million click fraud
The FBI has closed the net on an Estonian gang accused of being behind an extraordinary four-year multinational malware campaign said to have netted $14 million (£8.8 million) in proceeds after infecting hundreds of thousands of PCs and Macs. That both Macs and PCs users were targeted by the gang…
FBI disrupts search hijack gang after $14 million fraud
The FBI has closed the net on an Estonian gang accused of being behind an extraordinary four-year multinational malware campaign said to have netted $14 million (£8.8 million) in proceeds after infecting hundreds of thousands of PCs and Macs. That both Macs and PCs users were targeted by the gang…