Accused Zotob Worm Author Says Money Was Motive

An anonymous reader writes "Washingtonpost.com has an excerpt of an online interview with "Diabl0", the 18-year-old that Moroccan authorities arrested on suspicion of writing the Zotob and Mytob worms, as well as the Rbot trojan. In the back-and-forth, Diabl0 says his worms "spread only for money" and hints that the motive was receiving commissions from installing spyware on infected computers."

Comments

What is the answer to 99 out of 100 questions?

[Anonymous Coward]

Money.

Re:What is the answer to 99 out of 100 questions?

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

the sickness of Islam doesn't end there

Its fuckers like you
who say shit like that
that really piss me off.

Those acts are no more about Islam than Pat Robertson calling for the assasination of Hugo Chaves is about Christianity and it doesn't stop there. Any mainstream religion will have plenty of nutz on the fringe who will do whatever evil they fucking want to and then blame it on their god. That doesn't, in any way, invalidate the religion, it just proves that evil will use whatever tool it can.

With over a billion muslims in the world, it is just plain stupid to judge them based on the actions of the most extreme fringes of their society. How would you feel if all white people in the world were treated as if the actions and beliefs of the KKK were their own actions and beliefs?

Anti Virus firms will kick his butt

[deft]

"Diabl0 says his worms "spread only for money" and hints that the motive was receiving commissions from installing spyware on infected computers."

Because he's stealing THEIR business model! =)

Re:Anti Virus firms will kick his butt

[ackthpt]

"Diabl0 says his worms "spread only for money" and hints that the motive was receiving commissions from installing spyware on infected computers."

Because he's stealing THEIR business model! =)

Whose business model? Who is actually doing the paying? Some low-life add-popper, or the companies who make so much money on virii/worm erradication that they can buy naming rights to stadia?

I still think the really story is what these guys will say, assuming they talk and don't have some mob death threat hanging overy their heads.

Re:Anti Virus firms will kick his butt

[mroch]

Actually, "stadia" is plural, but in the wrong context. Stadia were a Roman unit of measurement equivalent to the length of a stadium, but "stadiums" are more than one stadium.

Re:Youngins....

[Cerdic]

If we had an infinite number of ScuttleMonkeys typing this story, they would eventually get the grammar correct.

Well of COURSE it was for the money!

[__aailob1448]

I'm a moroccan national and I can tell you that prospects are grim for the youth over there. They have been for quite some time and things just aren't getting better.

  While this Diabl0 guy was only 18, there is no shortage of university graduates who, after 4+ years of studying, find out that there is no such thing as a job market for them.

  The most resourceful and those with affulent families escape to europe and the U.S while those of more modest origins or stronger ties to their country get bitter and are forced to take up any crappy job they can find.

  It is inevitable that more cyber-criminals will emerge in Morocco. Cybercafes are cheap and those unemployed folks have plenty of time to devise moneymaking schemes.

Oh, i'm one of those who escaped. Every summer I return, I look and I despair.