Zotob-coders Locked Behind Bars

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The coders of the Zotob worm have heard their sentence in a Moroccan court. Farid Essebar, a 19-year-old programmer got 2 years of prison, and his accomplish Achraf Bahloul 1 year. A third individual is awaiting sentence in Turkey.

The two got arrested just 2 weeks after the worm started to spread. The worm infected systems from companies like CNN, The Financial Times, ABC and The New York Times. Systems infected were used to collect credit card data and perform DDoS attacks. The systems were being controlled from IRC channels.

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Tags: Botnets, IRC, Scum

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 14th, 2006 at 3:43 pm and is filed under Botnets/DDoS, IRC. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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