The Scoop on the m00p Group [Was: Re: Botnet Hackers Held in UK and Finland]

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Check it out:

 http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/06/the_scoop_on_the_m00p_group_1.html

- ferg

-- Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi> wrote:

Local news here in Finland say the group was known with name "m00p".
The computer of Finnish guy has been confiscated now (oh, is that the
term;-)

Link points to the Finnish language article
http://www.hs.fi/tulosta/1135220453960

- Juha-Matti

Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote: 
> Via The Times Online (UK).
>
> [snip]
>
> Three men suspected of bombarding business computers with e-mail
> viruses have been arrested following an investigation into internet
> fraud involving police in Britain and Finland.
>
> The trio - a 63-year-old from England, a 28-year-old from Scotland and
> a 19-year-old from Finland - are accused of creating trojan viruses
> attached to spam emails with the intention of causing a "massive
> infection".
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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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