29A virus-writing gang Russian member sentenced.Authorities in Russia have pronounced a member of the notorious international 29A gang guilty of writing viruses. Eugene Suchkov admitted writing the W32/Stepan and Gastropod gastropod, member of the class Gastropoda, the largest and most successful class of mollusks (phylum Mollusca), containing over 35,000 living species and 15,000 fossil forms. viruses, and posting their live code alongside the source code necessary to create new variants on a number of underground virus exchange websites. He was found guilty and fined 3,000 roubles (approximately 57 [pounds sterling]) for his activities, and will now carry a criminal record. Suchkov, who went by the pseudonym pseudonym (s  `dənĭm) [Gr.,=false name], name assumed, particularly by writers, to conceal identity. A writer's pseudonym is also referred to as a nom de plume (pen name). of "Whale", was a
member of the 29A virus writing group which has members based in several
countries. Others involved with the gang have names such as
'ZOMBIE', 'The Mental Driller" and
"Ratter'. The 29A virus writing gang is so-named because"
29A" is the hexadecimal See hex. (mathematics) hexadecimal - (Or "hex") Base 16. A number representation using the digits 0-9, with their usual meaning, plus the letters A-F (or a-f) to represent hexadecimal digits with values of (decimal) 10 to 15. for '666". In an interview with a British internet magazine Internet Magazine was a monthly print title launched in October 1994 by the UK publishing house, Emap. Its last issue, number 119, was published in July 2004. History late in 2003, "Whale" predicted that a future potential playground Playground - A visual language for children, developed for Apple's Vivarium Project. OOPSLA 89 or 90? for virus writers would be Microsoft's ..NET framework. 'Whale' then published articles on the internet earlier this year explaining how a NET virus could be written. www.sophos.com |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion