The botnet Koobface is closed: his organization suspect Russian| 15.11.2010
Later on Friday evening was stopped by the command and control servers of one of the most interesting botnets of today — Koobface. This was reported by PC World with the words leading employee of the SecDev Group Narta
Villeneuve (Nart Villeneuve). Villeneuve believes that Koobface built and operated by immigrants from Russia.
The expert was able to prove ownership of three servers connected via an English ISP Coreix, to Koobface. After SecDev attracted to the investigation of English police, the provider
deprived of the access servers of the Network. “Now they are offline,” said in the night from 12 to 13 November Nart Villeneuve.
The worm Koobface is known for more than two years. It is remarkable that he became the first botnet that actively exploited to infect computers Facebook, and its very name is an anagram
the names of the world’s largest social network.
