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Joint Finnish-UK sting brings down virus writing gang
Members of a group of computer virus authors responsible for creating a number of spyware-spreading viruses like Dogbot, Santabot and variants of Rbot were nabbed in a multi-national crackdown by officials in the UK and Finland. According to reports, arrests took place in both England and in Scotland, as well as Helsinki, where a 19-year-old man was arrested. According to a statement by UK antivirus firm Sophos, the group is believed to have connections to a number of different families of malicious software, much of it designed to create botnets. The group is also believed to have launched the opportunistic Stinx Trojan last year, which tried to leverage Sony's misbegotten DRM technology to evade detection, Sophos said.
Posted by Paul Roberts on June 28, 2006 05:41 AM
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