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…

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Koobface malware spreading via torrent

After spreading via social networking site Facebook several months back, the Koobface virus appears to be back, this time spreading via torrent and peer-to-peer file sharing. Computer security firm Trend Micro said that the virus, which turns computers it infects into a peer-to-peer botnet, now uses Trojanized shared application files….

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