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Accused Zotob Worm Author Says Money Was Motive

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the crime-still-pays dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Anti Virus firms will kick his butt by mroch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.