p2pnet - rss feed: Taiwanese nail Trojan creator
p2pnet.net News:- A Taiwanese software technician has been arrested for allegedly spawning a Trojan horse that infected computer systems at Taiwan’s Presidential Office, the Ministry of National Defense and more than 200 private firms last month.
The news follows reports that a 16-year-old Canadian “spam artist suspected of hacking into thousands of computers” was charged with mischief and fraudulent use of a computer, among other things.
Earlier this month Sven Jaschan, 18, was arrested in northern Germany after his Sasser worm wreaked havoc on cmputers around the world.
In this latest case, “The National Police Administration’s Internet Crime Investigation Squad identified the suspect as Pingtung native Wang Ping-an, 30, a software technician at a small Kaohsiung company that sells computer hardware and chips,” says the Taipei Times here, going on:
“After being arrested at his Kaohsiung residence, Wang allegedly told police that he had tried to sell the ‘Trojan horse’ program on the Internet last month and that a Chinese hacker had e-mailed him to say that he was interested in the program. The Chinese hacker allegedly offered to trade other computer programs for the program that Wang had created.
“Wang allegedly told police that it never occurred to him that Chinese intelligence officials might take advantage of his work to harm Taiwan’s computer systems or endanger its national security.”
Taiwanese police are investigating whether Wang has, “worked with Chinese authorities on other hacking projects, has implanted the program on computer systems related to national security or has stolen classified information,” says the report.
Head investigator Eric Lee is quoted as saying, “The program he created implants a ‘back door’ and a virus on computer systems, allowing hackers to steal data from a system whenever they want to.”
May 28th, 2004 at 7:35 pm
hmmmm, strange how no one ever got arrested before for hacking, look at the monumental effort that was involved to catch Dark Dante (Kevin Poulsen - read about him its hilarious and awe inspiring) or Mitnick (read about him and his bum luck capers)
but now that people are complaining worldwide and MS gets involved in pursuing these black hats (and finally installs a firewall), and lo and behold, arrests aplenty. problem is that they’re not getting the real indivs behind the most nefarious schemes, the ones that actually will make a difference if caught. These recent arrests are nothing more than a smoke-screen to placate the masses.