Monday, December 13, 2010

Koobface, a highly organized botnet

http://www.infowar-monitor.net/reports/iwm-koobface.pdf

Not worried about botnet affecting the online ads industry? Read about the sophistication of Koobface. Here's an example: "...The operators of Koobface have been able to setup a stable botnet infrastructure that allows them to maintain tens of thousands of compromised computers and profit immensely from PPC and PPI, earning a total of $2,067,682.69 between June 23, 2009 and June 10, 2010."

My favorite part is faking CAPTCHA to users to create new spam accounts. This is pure evil and brilliant at the same time!

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