Hi all. You may want to be ready for a *possible* support lines flood
today.
Yesterday I discovered a fast-spreading facebook worm. It spreads by
sending messages to all your facebook friends, from your account, asking
them to click on a link in the .pl ccTLD.
This worm is somewhat similar to zlob, here is a link to a kaspersky
paper on a previous iteration of it, they call it koobface:
http://www.kaspersky.com/news?id=207575670
The worm collects spam subject lines from, and then sends the users
personal data to the following C&C:
zzzping.com
I spoke with DirectNIC last night and the Registrar Operations (reg-ops)
mailing list was updated that the domain is no longer reachable. That was
very fast response time from DirectNIC, which we appreciate.
The worm is still fast-spreading, watch the statistics as they fly:
http://www.d9.pl/system/stats.php
The facebook security team is working on this, and they are quite capable.
The security operations community has been doing analysis and
take-downs, but the worm seems to still be spreading.
All anti virus vendors have been notified, and detection (if not removal)
should be added within a few hours to a few days.
For now, while users may get infected, their information is safe (unless
the worm has a secondary contact C&C which I have not verified yet).
It seems like some users may have learned not to click on links in email,
but any other medium does not compute.
Gadi.
