Kaspersky Lab Discovers Koobface Worm Doubles its Number of Command and Control Servers in 48 Hours
Kuala Lumpur, March 12, 2010 – It’s not easy being ‘friends’ and now it is getting downright dangerous as the Koobface worm returns with a vengeance infecting social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, according to Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions.
The malicious Koobface program(an anagram of Facebook) targets sites such as Facebook and Twitter and uses compromised legitimate websites as proxies for its main command and control server, attempting to gather sensitive information from the victims such as credit card numbers. It was first detected in December 2008 and a more potent version appeared in March 2009 and it is unfortunately back again in 2010.
