Russians close to prosecuting 'Pinch' Trojan authors
Posted in: Legal, Privacy & Security at 23/12/2007 01:16
Russia may soon prosecute the authors of the "Pinch" Trojan, an easy-to-use malicious software program available on the Internet that steals a variety of data.
Nikolay Patrushev, who heads Russia's Federal Security Services, said earlier this week that Pinch's authors had been identified and would be taken to court, according to a blog posting by Russian security vendor Kaspersky Lab.
Kaspersky said the arrest of the Pinch writers, identified as Ermishkin and Farkhutdinov, would be on the same level as the 2005 prosecution of German Sven Jaschan for creating the NetSky and Sasser worms, which caused thousands of infected computers to crash worldwide.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/12/21/Russians-close-to-prosecuting-Pinch-Trojan-authors_1.html
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9053922
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140757-c,trojanhorses/article.html
