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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405787/posts
Celebrity-Themed Scareware Campaign Abusing DocStoc
DANCHO DANCHEV - blog ^ | MONDAY, DECEMBER 07, 2009 | Dancho Danchev
Posted on December 11, 2009 3:32:36 PM PST by Cindy
MONDAY, DECEMBER 07, 2009 Celebrity-Themed Scareware Campaign Abusing DocStoc
UPDATE: Docstoc has removed all the participating accounts in this campaign, and is applying additional filtering to undermine its effectiveness.
Last week’s “Celebrity-Themed Scareware Campaign Abusing DocStoc and Scribd” is now exclusively targeting the popular Docstoc document-sharing service. Naturally, this very latest campaign once again offers overwhelming evidence on the inner workings of the cybercrime ecosystem, in this particular case, the connection between the Koobface gang and money mule recruitment campaigns.
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Blog:
http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2009/12/koobface-friendly-riccom-ltd-as29550.html
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2009
“Koobface-Friendly Riccom LTD - AS29550 - (Finally) Taken Offline”
Posted by Dancho Danchev
SNIPPET: “Last week, Josh Kirkwood, Network Engineer at Blue Square Data Group Services Limited, with whom I’ve been keeping in touch regarding the blackhat SEO activity courtesy of the Koobface gang, and actual Koobface botnet activity that’s been taking place there for months, pinged me with an interesting email - “Riccom are now gone” (AS29550). He also pinged the folks at hpHosts in response to their posts once again emphasizing on the malicious activity taking place there.”