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Heise Online Reveals Trojan / Spam Connection

Posted by timothy on from the how-to-make-friends-and-influence-people dept.

yourruinreverse writes "Virus distributors have been caught red-handed selling IP addresses of trojan-infected machines by editors of the German IT magazine c't. Several individuals appear to have been arrested already after c't, revealing one of the virus writer's nationality as British, passed on the information to Scotland Yard. Check out the German article first, then its translation on Groklaw and maybe also same translation posted in the English section of the Heise website (in order of appearance)."

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  1. Re:PWN3D! by Aardpig · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hope they send them to a British pound-me-in-the-ass prison!

    In Britain, this happens in the private schools, not the prisons...

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  2. Caught red-handed? by twoslice · · Score: 5, Funny
    The phrase "red-handed," meaning, as the Oxford English Dictionary puts it, "in the very act of crime, having the evidences of guilt still upon the person," A murderer caught "red-handed" still had the blood of his victim on his hands. We have, since the 18th century, also used "red-handed" to describe any criminal caught in the act or bearing irrefutable evidence of guilt.

    So did these guys have IP addresses hanging from their necks like bling blings?

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  3. Re:A maturing industry... by nomadic · · Score: 4, Funny

    In this country, you gotta get the IP addresses first first. Then when you get the IP addresses, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.

    Actually, virus writers are still geeks so they don't get the women. Never mind.

  4. Re:Theo article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't we proletariat have more pressing matters? Like obtaining control of production? Let's get our priorities straight here comrades.

  5. Re:So, I suppose the next question is... by null_session · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dangit, every business model that shows up on the internet, some nut starts doing it for free....

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  6. Re:Also with Linux Root Kit by Guylhem · · Score: 3, Funny

    Like yoda you speak.

  7. RTFA. RTFA. RTFA. by MyHair · · Score: 4, Funny
    Check out the German article first, then its translation on Groklaw and maybe also same translation posted in the English section of the Heise website (in order of appearance).

    I'm supposed to RTFA 3 times?

    1: You're lucky if one out of every 3 read it once.

    2: Is this supposed to be a cascading Slashdotting? Next time just submit the story 3 times with a different link each time.

    :-)