Kaspersky: Pinch Authors Pinched

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The Kaspersky Blog.

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Today Nikolay Patrushev, head of the Federal Security Services, announced
the results of the measures taken to combat cyber crime in 2007.

Among other information, it was announced that it had been established who
was the author of the notorious Pinch Trojan - two Russian virus writers
called Ermishkin and Farkhutdinov. The investigation will soon be completed
and taken to court.

It's well known that Pinch is one of the most popular Trojan programs with
Russian malicious users. The Trojan makes it possible to steal email, icq
and other account data, including to network services and application. The
authors of this program, also known as Damrai and Scratch, used Pinch to
build a criminal industry.

Patrushev's announcement today clearly shows that the security services are
targeting active virus writing groups which participate in cyber crime, and
that the steps being taken are meeting with success.

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More:
http://www.viruslist.com/en/weblog?weblogid=208187472

- - ferg


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