Comments on: Weird New Koobface URLs Use Old Tricks

By: The Dark Side of Social: Hacking | Graham Integration Management Inc.

The Dark Side of Social: Hacking | Graham Integration Management Inc. — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:54:09 +0000

[...] particularly cautions against two malicious trends: koobface and zeus. Koobface tends to come across as a link via Facebook—looks like it’s from a [...]

By: The Dark Side of Social: Hacking

The Dark Side of Social: Hacking — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:07:49 +0000

[...] quite cautions opposite dual antagonistic trends: koobface and zeus. Koobface tends to come opposite as a couple around Facebook—looks like it’s from a [...]

By: Five Reasons You Should Always “Stop. Think. Connect.” « Webroot Threat Blog

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:02:26 +0000

[...] The scam: Send a social network user’s friends a brief message with a short URL. Make the short URL point to a page that convinces the user to download and run a “codec” or a “Flash update” program. When the victim runs the “codec” installer, infect the victim’s computer with a wide array of malicious programs, including keyloggers, rogue AV installers, and downloaders. Then hijack the victim’s own social network account(s) to continue the spread of the worm. [...]

By: Rube Goldberg Trojan Works Hard for the Hijack « Webroot Threat Blog

Rube Goldberg Trojan Works Hard for the Hijack « Webroot Threat Blog — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:22:05 +0000

[...] familiar? It does to me, too. It’s a hexadecimal-encoded URL, the kind I wrote about in an earlier blog post. The only reason I can surmise as to why the Trojan author decided to encode the URL this was is to [...]

By: Vitamin Oyun

Vitamin Oyun — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:43:21 +0000

Thank you for information. Well job..

By: Spoofed URL’s w/ Obfuscation and Browser Overrides | Security Dissection and Rants

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:15:58 +0000

[...] such as ‘Koobface’ are using these oldschool tricks to mask their true locations (See Webroot). Stay tuned as we peek into how this bug is easily exploited on mobile [...]