Peaches Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 <h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></h1>Koobface Infiltrates Google ReaderBotnet hosted using Google Reader shared pagesBy Catalin Cimpanu, Web News Editor10th of November 2009, Security experts at TrendMicro have discovered at least 1,300 public Google Reader pages infected with a new Koobface type of attack. Hackers have employed Google Reader accounts to host links redirecting users to a Koobface infected page. Attackers employed Google Reader's possibility to share links and messages between users to host an image resembling a Flash video. Whenever the user tried to view the video, they were redirected to a cloned YouTube page containing a video. As in previous attacks, the user was soon prompted with an alert that invited them to upgrade their Flash player. Hidden was the fact that instead of the updated software, the user was downloading the doomed Koobface downloader component that would that take over the victim's computer. Full article at Softpedia - http://news.softpedia.com/news/Koobface-Infiltrates-Google-Reader-126620.shtml Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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