Zotob creators arrested
p2pnet.net News:- With a little (appropriate) help from Bill and the Boyz, as well as the FBI, authorities in Morocco and Turkey tracked down and arrested two men said to be responsible for the Zotob worm, which caused so much alarm and consternation among Microsoft, CNN, the New York Times, ABC News, and others.
"The swift resolution of this matter is the direct result of effective coordination and serves as a good example of what we can achieve when we work together," FBI cyber spokesman Louis Reigel said in a press release, says Aljazeera.
The RIAA, MPAA and BSA would drink to that. They regularly and routinely use local and foreign police and other services on entertainment and software cartel business.
Farid Essebar, 18, from Morocco, and Atilla Ekici, 21, from Turkey, “are believed to have written and unleashed the Zotob and Mytob worms that hit the Internet less than two weeks ago, the FBI said in Washington on Friday,” says the story.
Zotob was yet another manifestation of an e-bug which took advantage of a yet another critical Microsoft security hole.
F-Secure had a blow-by-blow account.
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See:-
Aljazeera – Moroccan, Turk held for Internet havoc, August 26, 2005
blow-by-blow – Zotob worm outbreak, August 23, 2005
August 27th, 2005 at 5:32 pm
With a little (appropriate) help from Bill and the Boyz [...]
What’s so (appropriate) about it?
August 28th, 2005 at 1:28 pm
Mass-criminel like Bill Gates & the Bush family is still counting the billions they stole while third-world country people get arrested for making a virus, what a shitty world we live in !
Would have we their name if they were rich american kids, I don’t think so…
August 29th, 2005 at 1:56 pm
Remember the Homeless hacker? We got his name and he was an American. When you go against the cartels, and human or civil right is freely ignored whenever it it convenient for the cartels.