So, Who Wrote Sobig?

An anonymous reader writes "F-Secure's Virus Blog posted links to a 48-page technical study on who wrote the infamous Sobig worm which went around the world last year. The study is done by anonymous authors. The study concludes that author of this worm is a Russian programmer and goes out all the way to name him. This file has now been posted publicly but on Geocities and and Tripod. So you can have a look by yourself and make your own conclusions."

"Who Wrote Sobig" by Anonymous

[Anonymous Coward]

Not me.

Great Geocities Link

[Anonymous Coward]

What do they have 10MB of transfer a day?

Geocities? Tripod?

[Anonymous Coward]

...now been posted publicly but on Geocities and and Tripod. So you can have a look...

Ummm, you realize that you're telling the entire /. community that they should look at Geocities and Tripod accounts, right? This should last, oh, about 5 seconds.

Heh...

[Blue-Footed Boobie]

Kinda funny how the BSD devil up on the /. bar is looking at the worm...maybe he fears retribution?

Re:Mirror!

[Meostro]

i'm a whore with a website: NSFW [wikipedia.org] mirror here [wetsexygirl.com]...

yes, this is real. NSFW keeps bandwidth down.

You forgot...

[twoslice]

about 5 seconds.

to add the word milli after the five....

Re:"Who Wrote Sobig" by Anonymous

[TykeClone]

Anyone who has kids knows that the first person that says "Not me" is guilty :)

In Related Links ...

[Anonymous Coward]

Best deals: Worms

Re:motivation

[Trigun]

if they are that dedicated to the open source initiative, shouldn't they spend that time improving linux rather than writing viruses?

Or, at the very least, release the source code under the GPL?

Another one.. distribute the /. effect.. ?

[vluther]

http://mirrors.linuxpowered.com/WhoWroteSobig.pdf [linuxpowered.com]

"author of this worm is a Russian programmer"

[Anonymous Writer]

In Soviet Russia... oh, nevermind.

Re:incase you cant get the article....

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks! We didn't need to review any of the "evidence" and discuss their merits and authenticity. We just needed the bastard's name so we can hunt him down and stone him. Let's go folks! It's time to rid the world of this heathen!

Just...

[grasshoppa]

...tell me what address to mail this...um...strangly ticking package to.

Re:Good American Programmers?

[Mercano]

There never seems to be any good American programmers who write malicious code and viruses like this.

It all got outsourced to Asia.

Re:The reports seems biased

[JudgeFurious]

You have IT skills and have posted to newsgroups since 1996?

We'd like to arrange a meeting with you to discuss some "things"...

- Sincerly, The Dept. of Homeland Security.

I'm waiting

[hchaos]

I'm waiting for the study on who wrote the technical study on who wrote the infamous Sobig worm.

One question

[Tablizer]

I have only one question for virus writers:

Has anyone ever gotten laid for writing a virus?

That's not the half of it...

[Xenographic]

We have what's described as an anonymous article, based apparently on pure speculation, on a free webhost, that purports to identify a virus author that, SFAIK, has not yet been arrested?

Impressive. I can't believe Slashdot got such a big scoop on this one ;-]

Re:Mirror!

[The Fanta Menace]

hmm, dunno about that. I clicked on it because of the NSFW message...

Re:One question

[kisielk]

I doubt it. But I hear you can get viruses from getting laid...