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Article: Suspected Worm Creators Arrested; Hunt for Zotob Authors Leads To Turkey, Morocco
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- The Washington Post
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- August 27, 2005
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Officials in Turkey and Morocco have arrested two men thought to
be responsible for creating computer worms that infected hundreds of
thousands of computers worldwide this year, including the Zotob worm
that crippled several high-profile companies this month, the FBI said
yesterday.
Police in Morocco arrested Farid Essebar, 18, a Moroccan national
born in Russia who used the online moniker "Diabl0." Authorities in
Turkey arrested 21-year-old Atilla Ekici, known by the online alias
"Coder."
Essebar and Ekici are suspected of releasing the Zotob and Mytob
computer worms that were designed to take advantage of flaws in
Microsoft's widely used Windows operating system. The suspects'
nicknames ...