Facebook hacker group halted

January 20, 2012

Malware by the Russian hacker group Koobface has come to a halt after a pair of researchers on Tuesday published the names and photographs of its members online.

Koobface created malware that primarily targeted Facebook users. A fake prompt to install video software would install a program to extract bank account information.

“Security software company Kaspersky Lab said its database showed that the Koobface virus hit between 400,000 and 800,000 computers during its heyday in 2010,” the Guardian reports.

German security researchers Jan Droemer and Dirk Kollberg said Koobface servers were down and members of the group began scrubbing its online presence the morning after they released their report. Read more