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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:What is the answer to 99 out of 100 questions? by NiceGeek · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "(Note: I am not gay, but come on now, killing someone just because they are gay? How sick of a "society" do you have to be to do something like that?)"

    Dunno...why don't you ask Matthew Sheppard?