According to FireEye, the security company, its researchers have found that Koobface, the PC-virus, which created disaster on Facebook during 2010, seems like it's no longer exploiting the social-networking website for disseminating its malevolent web-links.
Reportedly, it was February 13 or so in 2011 that Koobface last attempted at contaminating users, observes FireEye in a posting to its Malware Intelligence Lab blog dated April 8, 2011. In that attack, the scammers utilized a web-link that diverted victims onto one phony YouTube movie, which could be viewed only after taking down one particular codec file. But that file was malicious, which actually compromised the users' computers.
Remarking about this new and fascinating occurrence, Senior Threat Analyst Atif Mushtaq with FireEye the anti-malware software vendor stated that suddenly, it was observed that bot-masters stopped commanding their hijacked PCs to send out bogus messages to members of Facebook whose accounts had been compromised. Actually, FireEye initially thought it to be merely an interim move; however, when the silence went on for 2-months, the company couldn't ignore it any longer, he added. Crn.com published this on April 12, 2011.
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