M00P Hacker Crew Busted
Good work by multinational law enforcement agencies nabbed a hacker crew that is suspected of creating worms and trojans for the propigation of botnets.
From TechWeb here:
Three M00P Hackers Arrested
Authorities in the U.K. and Finland said Tuesday that they had arrested three men suspected of being part of the M00P hacker gang, which has created and distributed numerous worms and Trojan horses for at least the last year.
The British Metropolitan Police’s Computer Crime Unit, the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation, and the Finnish Pori Police Department combined to arrest the trio: a 63-year-old Suffolk man, a 28-year-old man in Scotland, and a 19-year-old man in Finland. Police in the two countries raided several residences and seized servers and other computers.
M00P has been linked to a number of worms and Trojans — including Dogbot, Hackarmy.c, Santabot.a, Shuckbot.a, Rbot.bf, and Tibick.a — that have been used to hijack large numbers of computers to produce a botnet, said U.K.-based security vendor Sophos Tuesday.
The trojans the crew used were unremarkable, and quite typical of IRC thin clients used to download more malware. Most shocking about this article is that Grandpa, 63, has some elite haxor skills.
