First SMS Worm: Made in China
Ah another first, and once again China is at the forefront! We recently reported about a Chinese company sharing their huge malware database and now a group of Chinese companies has managed to develop the first SMS worm!
It’s a pretty cool concept, abusing the Symbian Express Signing procedure. It reminds me of the heydays of self-propagating e-mail worms when corporate e-mail servers were getting flooded because everyone in the company was sending the same attachment to everyone else in their address book.
Full Story: Darknet (UK)
Koobface worm joins the Twittersphere
Cybercriminals are experimenting with a new feature introduced in one of the latest Koobface variants – the ability of the worm to hijack the Twitter accounts of infected users and post tweets in an attempt to infect their followers.
According to researchers from TrendMicro, once the infected user attempts to log into Twitter, Koobface hijacks the session and posts a tweet on behalf of the user. Would this novel feature allow the worm to spread even more efficiently? It largely depends on whether or not they’d remove the beta label from it, and go mainstream with the feature.
For the time being, the pre-defined set of messages include the following: My home video 
; michaeljackson’ testament on youtube and Watch my new private video! LOL .
Full Story: ZDNet (Blog)
