New Worm : Koobface Newest

A new variant of the worm Koobface first detected last year, appeared to still hang around on the Internet. Koobface this new version is a new version of the worm that uses the media through the distribution of micro-blogging site Twitter, send a tweet to the user's computer is infected in order to promote a website link. The link then directs users to the Facebook page where users will be encouraged to download a Flash update that contains the virus.


According to Kaspersky Labs, Stefan Tanase, this week ramainya people are looking for ways to Twitter, to use the Google API Safebrowsing to block that contains the URL tweet 'evil'. Tanase added that the latest worm variants Koobface has been sent from the IP address of the individual 100 to extend the victim of Internet users. While Twitter has been mentioned that the death of any account used to send the full tweet virus infection.


Twitter is now also cooperating with other social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, Netlog and Tagged, to combat the spread of the worm Koobface. Data from Kaspersky Koobface indicates that the virus spread to various social networking sites have 10 times more risky and dangerous since the absence of a strong element of trust among users. Some speculation indicates that variants Koobface latest attack was related to Twitter's been a DDoS, but there is no evidence until now.

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