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Article: Group denies involvement with Code Red.(Industry Trend or Event)
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- Network World
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- August 8, 2001
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Virus writing group 29A on Wednesday denied that any of its members created the Code Red or the Code Red II worm. The denial came after a German media report pinpointed 29A as the brains behind the malicious Internet worms.
A Deutsche Presse Agentur (DPA) report on Tuesday said that 29A has been bragging on online chat rooms about unleashing Code Red onto the 'Net. DPA also described 29A as a Dutch hacker group.
"Some Chinese guy is responsible (for Code Red) not any 29A member," said a Spanish member of 29A using the alias VirusBuster in an e-mail interview. He added that 29A is not a hacker group, but a virus-writing group. Most members are from Spain ...