Researchers Take Down Koobface Servers

splitenz notes the first actions in the war against the Koobface botnet, taken on the heels of a comprehensive report (PDF) on the operations of the botnet and the criminal gang behind it. The researchers who analyzed Koobface are the same ones who brought Ghostnet to light. "Security researchers, working with law enforcement and Internet service providers, have disrupted the brains of the Koobface botnet.The computer identified as the command-and-control server used to send instructions to infected Koobface machines was offline late Friday (US Pacific time). Criminals behind the botnet made more than $US2 million in one year. Facebook accounts are used to lure victims to Google Blogspot pages, which in turn redirect them to Web servers that contain the malicious Koobface code. This action is only a stage in the war against Koobface."

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Re:Fight Fire With Fire.

[PietjeJantje]

In that case, since we like the widen our search in our next case, Sir, we'll search all of your traffic data and what you typed into Google the last year.

Re:Fight Fire With Fire.

[pgmrdlm]

My biggest problem is not spam. But people that get infected with key loggers or other data gathering tools which give up everything about them. Loss of income, loss of privacy.

I think everyone lose's track of that fact.