With Koobface continuing to spreading across Facebook by utilizing hundreds of compromised sites as infection vectors, next to using them as distributed hosting infrastructure in an attempt to undermine potential take down activities, a common misconception regarding the gang’s activities shifts the attention from their true participating within the underground ecosystem.

The intensive multitasking on behalf of the Koobface gang, next to the fact that the Koobface botnet is the tip of the iceberg for their malicious operations, prompts the publishing of this top 10 things you didn’t know about the Koobface gang list.

Some are funny, others are disturbing, the majority indicate a cybercrime ecosystem that actively keeps itself up-to-date with the very latest research profiling it, by reading the blogs of security vendors and researchers. Read More…