Sophos releases Exclusive research on Koobface gang
VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Sophos researchers and investigators across security industry have uncovered an insight into how a group like Koobface is run, and led, and earn millions of dollars every year by compromising computers. Sophos has releases its independent and exclusive research into the Koobface gang, identifying the same alleged perpetrators as Facebook: Anton Korotchenko, Alexander Koltyshev, Roman Koturbach, Syvatoslav Polinchuk, and Stanislav Avdeiko. In this exclusive, Sophos's Independent Researcher Jan Droemer and Malware Expert Dirk Kollberg is believed to share a wealth of findings, including the perpetrators' nicknames, online activities, physical locations and business dealings. It is known that, Koobface (an anagram of "Facebook") spreads via social networking sites, infecting PCs and building a botnet of compromised computers. It is so sophisticated it can even create its own social networking accounts, so that it can aggressive...