Facebook kills 'Lecpetex' botnet that turned 250k PCs into Litecoin-mining zombies

ronjor · Jul 9, 2014

Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service

Facebook said police in Greece made two arrests last week in connection with a little-known spamming botnet called “Lecpetex,” which used hacked computers to mine the Litecoin virtual currency.

As many as 50,000 Facebook accounts were affected, and as many as 250,000 computers worldwide, primarily in Greece, Poland, Norway, India, Portugal and the U.S., according to a blog post on Tuesday from Facebook’s Threat Infrastructure team.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/2452...cpetex-botnet-which-hit-250000-computers.html

Minimalist · Jul 9, 2014

The messages themselves were classic social engineering bait that lead the users to install the executable file in the attachment, which turned out to be a Bitcoin miner, which we identify as Trojan:W32/Lecpetex.

Some of the more interesting details of our analysis are presented in our Lecpetex whitepaper.
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http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002725.html

Minimalist · Jul 9, 2014

Facebook has moved slowly and deliberately into the realm of botnet takedowns by disrupting a relatively small operation in Greece that was using the social platform to spread spam and malware.
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http://threatpost.com/facebook-carries-out-lecpetex-botnet-takedown

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