Facebook Security Wing clammed on
Tuesday, that they had located the members of Russian gang behind the Koobface.
Koobface is a virus that attacked Facebook and other social networking site.
Koobface emerged in
2008, spreader through social networking sites. They bypass the flash
player for spreading. A visitor to infected site on clicked play
button of flash player, a message is displayed. Message informs that their
flash player is out of date and to download newer version. A user
who downloaded and install fake adobe flash player distributed by Koobface
will turn the user computer into botnet made up of hundreds of
thousands of malwares. Koobface is able to perform this action by communicating
with 'command and central' server.
Koobface able to steal users private
information including username and password, and produce fake traffic to most
social networking sites using some malwares, to hang the roots connecting them.
In an online survey conducted by Facebook, it founded three out of five
computers are part of Koobface fake-traffic pulling network. In most cases the
user is forced to buy a specific antivirus to
skip out-of the action. This case remains until last month. Now it is
under control.
Update : Facebook team totals rooted
Koobface. They take lot of time to track the source and remove it. But the interesting
fact is that Koobface is not effected to Facebook, but also to YouTube, Google
Plus, Orkut, Yoku, metacafe etc. It also have the capability to infect the
flash animations that in webpages. Some examples include gaming sites like
microchip. These virus can also be found on cd or dvd. The main reason for that
is the use of flash as the user interface. For all cd and dvd a animated catlog
is used to choose the contents. They help user to navigate easily. It also
present in small flash games.