Peaches Posted November 10, 2009 Report Share Posted November 10, 2009 Nov9 2009Koobface Abuses Google Reader Pagesby Jonell Baltazar (Advanced Threats Researcher) We are seeing another development from the Koobface botnet, this time abusing the Google-owned service Google Reader to spam malicious URLs in social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter.The Koobface gang used controlled Google Reader accounts to host URLs containing an image that resembles a flash movie. These URLs are spammed through the said social networks. When the user clicks the image or the title of the shared content, it leads to the all-too-familiar fake YouTube page that hosts the Koobface downloader component. Details & screenshots TrendLabs - http://blog.trendmicro.com/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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