Spanish police kick cyber butt!

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Ola! Another juicy story, the Spanish police busted a hacking group and destroyed their network. Well, it so happens that this is one of the top groups in the world selling stolen credit cards, usernames and emails to big underground hacking groups all over the world.
This operation was a joint operation with the FBI to bring down this network. At first attempt, they brought down 80% but the hackers regained 20% and attacked the FBI and Spanish police. However, on the second attempt the criminals were apprehended. The virus was a fascinating oppononet to anti-virus firm because it was continually redesigned to move through security features. No worries however, thanks to the FBI and Spanish police, you can sleep safely knowing your files are safe.

Special thanks to:
Earthtimes.org

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/312327,spain-dismantles-one-of-worlds-biggest-hacker-networks.html

Terms: Trojan

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Every once in a while I will post about computer terms to better explain it!
Trojan: A trojan or a Trojan Horse is a program that looks friendly but is actually Malware in disguise. Trojan comes from a famous Greek Mythology about how the Greeks conquered the people of Troy by leaving a Horse as trophy to the Trojans for winning the battle. The Horse contained a small select group of Greek soldiers who opened the gates late at night while the Trojans slept and the entire Greek army destroyed the city.
Trojans are the trickest type of Malware that you wish to never deal with because it might be Spyware, Adware, Bot, Backdoor, etc.

Koobface - facebook virus

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"You look funny in this new video", thats the subject for the mail you get in your facebook inbox. Please do not open it, its a VIRUS(WORM). It gives you a link and when you open it, it says "an update of Flash is needed before the video can be displayed", Then If the viewer approves the Flash installation, Koobface attempts to download a program called tinyproxy.exe. This loads a proxy server called Security Accounts Manager (SamSs) the next time the computer boots up. Koobface then listens to traffic on TCP port 9090 (To know more about TCP, check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve7_4ot-Dzs) and proxies all outgoing HTTP traffic. For example, a search performed on Google, Yahoo, MSN, or Live.com may be hijacked to other, lesser-known search sites. Good news, only a few people were attacked, Instructions on how to remove the virus is on http://www.facebook.com/security.

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