New York Times report says Facebook will start circulating information on alleged Koobface botnet gang to security companies and researchers today. Names of some of the alleged gang are already known to a select group of security companies including Facebook itself. Gang believed to currently reside in St Petersburg, enjoying luxury breaks in locations such as Bali, Monte Carlo and Turkey, and are certainly known to local police authorities as well as the FBI. A few appear to have been involved in legitimate software businesses though the oldest of the group is said to be connected to porn-popup spyware program CoolWebSearch.”]
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