10:25 The British found the controls a botnet server koobface | |
| And not only found, but closed the three main control server known to many botnet Koobface. Experts from the UK believe that this botnet is owned by Russian-speaking cybercriminals. Server, as it turned out, were stopped on Friday evening, causing considerable damage to the "Russian" botnet. Servers were turned off immediately after the experts have proved the ownership of these servers this botnet. Three control servers were connected via a British provider. Disconnect the server after the police appealed to the leadership of the provider Coreix, by whom and to ensure interaction with the botnet control servers. Now servers are offline, and botnet activity dropped significantly. In the first botnet has proved two years ago and became famous for this botnet that infected computers for users to use social networking site Facebook. Actually, this is called a botnet was "in honor of" the social network. As an attraction botnet uses a view an interesting video sent by the users of social networks. Once the user clicks on the invitation, it displays a message about the need to update the flash-player. Of course, no updates are installed, but loaded Java-script, which is a malicious program. Botnet creators are well thought out scheme for the spread of malicious scripts downloaded to the client part of a botnet computer users. Besides Facebook botnet is also working with the social networks like MySpace, Twitter and others. One of the most interesting moments in the work of a botnet is that it exposed even computers running Max OS X. So far, very little was known malicious programs that can effectively, if the word is applicable in this case, to work with this operating system. After infection, the virus takes to download an antivirus that supposedly finds viruses in the system and requires a "clean PC" money. Send money can be via SMS, either by sending money through a bank. It is worth noting that one of the server to shut down both times and has worked with financial flows hackers. Reports on its work botnet sent to Russian facilities, about once a day. Experts contend that one of the hacker lives in St. Petersburg. According to many experts rather pessimistic - found only three control server, while they may be hundreds. But those same experts believe that the discovery of other servers - a matter of time, and thanks to previous experience as you can find them much faster. | |
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