Monday, August 29, 2005

Conversation With a Worm Author

WashingtonPost.com: "A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about an increasing number of hackers making money by using large groupings of hacked home computers -- or 'bots' -- as massive install bases for spyware and adware, gleaning a commission for each piece of spyware planted on the infected computers.
Last week, with the arrest of two men thought to be responsible for unleashing the destructive Zotob, Mytob and Rbot family of computer worms, it came to light that investigators believe these guys were somehow making money off of their creations. Officials at the FBI and Microsoft said evidence indicates that Farid Essebar, 18, a Moroccan national born in Russia who went by the screen moniker �Diabl0,' developed the worms for sale to Atilla Ekici, aka �Coder,� a 21-year-old citizen of Turkey."

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