The UK’s Metropolitan Police Computer Crime Unit and Finland’s National Bureau of Investigation in a joint operation has claimed to bust up a gang of three malware writers. The three men, comprising a 19-year-old in Finland, 28-year-old Scottish man and a 63-year-old man from Suffolk were accused of being members of the ‘M00P’ virus-writing group.



The designed malware was aimed at entering computers and turn the PCs into a network of computers (or botnet) so that the users’ computers could be intercepted remotely to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks, to steal confidential information and commit identity theft or spread spam messages. According to A Sophos analysis, it has been confirmed that exit multitudes of malware that can be said related to the M00P gang, comprising Troj/Hackarmy-C, the W32/Dogbot spyware worm, W32/Rbot-BF, W32/Tibick-A and Troj/Shuckbot-A.



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