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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."
Money.
"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! =)
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
...the 18-year-old Moroccan authorities...
GAWD! I must be getting old cause I can remember when "authorities" used to be older than 18.
Bet this
For a minute there I thought he was a real asshole.
My Greatest Heist - Muisc partly inspired by the unbeatable Qwantz
Clearly we must ban this "money" immediately if it encourages criminal behavior.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
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There are companies that makes huge amounts of money from installing redirection software on computers, for example 180 Networks. The software effectively makes online purchases appear to originate from 180 Networks, therefore if a user goes to for example Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, or Dell, or anybody that pays referral commissions to buy something, 180 gets sent a commission. Obviously for this to work properly, new commission theft software needs to disable or remove existing commission theft software.
Oh well, what the hell...
un..deux..trois! CRASH
Diab10: wtf :p
Police: j00 r u|\|d3r 4rr35t, m0|\|513ur! :p
Diab10: u c4n't kn0ck? i'11 1053 my d3p05it, 100k 4t th4t d00r! r3ck3d! :(
Police: s0rry m0|\|513ur, w3 s4a11 g0 b4ck 0ut5id3 4nd try 4g4in, 0iu? :)
Diab10: w311, 0k.
Police: <kn0ck kn0ck kn0ck> Diab10: wtf, wh0 r u? :p
Police: <13 p01ic3>
Diab10: g0 4w4y, i'm n07 h0m3 :p
Police: <s4cr3 b13u, 332 g0t 4w4y!> >:(
Diab10: :)
Police: <w4it 4 s3c0nd...>
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Wait until he rats on the people who pay him, then put them all in the same cell.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
No, it's the other way around - Zotob is cleaned by some other worms.
F-Secure has a hi-tech diagram how it works here.
quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.
I am soooooo, sick of the politicians and their corruption. I personally don't see any "fix" besides a civil war in the USA to blow the shite out of the corrupted politicians.
How much longer should we sit on our fat @sses and let the big corps have privileges that we as private citizens could only dream of? Why should a corp be allowed to commit a crime and only get fined yet, if a private "citizen" committed the _same_ crime would get jail time?
I personally see nothing wrong with what Diabl0 did. After all, he was looking out for "share holders best interests" to MAKE MONEY, so why shouldn't he be protected just like all the other corps that "just want to make money"?
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land,
it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -James Madison
How come this worm can remove Gator, but i can't?
1. Wait till MS announces a new exploit. ......Jail!
2. hack up a virus, release on 'net
3.
I remember a time not all that long ago when the primary motivation for a kid writing a virus was to see his name in the lights or to learn something about technology. I could never really find fault with that, even though what they were doing was clearly misdirected and destructive. At least they were learning something, and being misdirected and destructive is what all kids do almost as a matter of course.
To read this now is both unsurprising and saddening, like the end of an era. A part of me misses the simple pleasure of a BBS, a modem, and people who had to care enough about technology to visit the same places that I was. Reading this story is where the new age of the Internet really hit home for me, though it's certainly been this way for at least a couple of years. The people who care simply don't have their own home anymore, or if they do I don't know where it is. Now that anyone can get on the Internet and the primary motivation for exploring technology is the cash offered by malevolent advertising, I can only sit and be dismayed at what this has all become.
I guess it's all spilled milk and sour grapes for me, though. And I'm sure those who were around at the very beginning, in the late 70s and through the 80s would look at me as a disrespectful babe in diapers for not showing up until the early 90s and sullying what they'd built just as I look upon this jerk as a harbinger of a new generation that just doesn't care.
he could have avoided this legal mess.
2 years and no mod points. Join reddit. Because openness is good.
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.