Brief HistoryDuring the first quarter of 2005, the advent of the family of mass-mailing bot-worms called MYTOBs gave rise to the vast proliferation of so-called BOT creators or groups that thrive on and make use of the modularity, functionality and “effectiveness” of the open-source codes. I will refer to the MYTOB open source as “Hellbot”…

Two men were finally sentenced to prison for conspiring to create a computer worm for an international hacking group. Bradley and Harvey were arrested in February 2003 at the same time as the 21-year-old American Raymond Stegerwalt. Stegerwalt was sentenced to 21 months in jail and fined $12,000 by the US Department of Defense, for…

Several people in Turkey and Morocco have been arrested by Local Police under suspicions that they are the ones who released the WORM_ZOTOB variants. Read the article here. Here are the names of the Malware Authors that have been arrested by Moroccan authorities together with the FBI. Farid Essebar, 18, code named “Diabl0”- a Moroccan…

As you see, there has been no entries for the past 2 days … It’s been “quiet” these past few days. Anyway, here are some things to get you up to speed on what’s been happening lately. The issue on regedit has generated quite a buzz and there are already malwares that use this bug….

William Genovese Jr., 28, of Meriden, Connecticut pleaded guilty to charges related to Attempted Sale of the Source Code for Microsoft’s Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0. Genovese reportedly posted a message on his Web site saying that he was selling the code for Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0. He was arrested when…