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Sasser Worm Author Arrested..Confessed
« on: May 8th, 2004, 3:36pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/05/08/sasser.arrest.ap/index.html
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Re: Sasser Worm Author Arrested..Confessed
« Reply #1 on: May 8th, 2004, 4:02pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
  About this worm from  VirusMyth.com  :
 
http://vmyths.com/hoax.cfm?id=280&page=3
 
  And from Vmyths' Newsletter  today   :
 
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In our previous Hysteria Alert, we predicted the fearmongers at mi2g will soon slap an astronomical dollar value on the Sasser worm.  The U.S. alone will account for a few billion of mi2g's guesstimate.  This leads us to ponder an interesting question:
 
Will the Justice Department try to extradite the author of the Sasser worm?  Will he stand trial on American soil for a multi-billion-dollar crime?
 
If history is a guide, Sasser's author will never appear before a U.S. judge.  Consider the following:
 
   1) U.S. feds never sought extradition for Jan de Wit (aka "OnTheFly"), who released the Kournikova virus in February 2001.  A Dutch court convicted him for the crime but he remains free of a U.S. indictment.
   2) U.S. feds never sought extradition for any of the suspects behind the ILoveYou virus in May 2000.  Reonel Ramones, Onel de Guzman, and Irene de Guzman remain free of a U.S. indictment in the Philippines despite the successful completion of a much-publicized worldwide manhunt.
   3) U.S. feds never sought extradition for Mike Calce (aka "Mafiaboy"), a then-14yr-old hacker who masterminded an e-commerce attack that (supposedly) very nearly destroyed Amazon.com, Yahoo!, eBay, CNN, and other U.S.-based firms in February 2000.  Calce was found guilty in Canada for the crime but remains free of a U.S. indictment.
   4) U.S. feds never sought extradition for acknowledged Chernobyl virus writer Chen Ing-Hau for "destroy[ing] thousands" of U.S. government, military, corporate, academic, and personal PCs in April 1999.  He remains free of a U.S. indictment in Taiwan.
 
FBI agents traditionally provide "evidence" to other countries to help them prosecute virus/worm authors ... but that's as far as it goes.  Remember this when you read stories about the arrest of Sasser's creator.  Vmyths predicts he won't be extradited to America.... "
 
 
 
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Re: Sasser Worm Author Arrested..Confessed
« Reply #2 on: May 9th, 2004, 7:57pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
Given that Sasser was basically a local DOS (by restarting the PC continually), what losses actually occured? I guess the only thing they can ever quantify directly is a loss of business, but even that is open to debate. The only loss of business data would have occured if someone panicked and reformatted a PC to get rid of it.
 
All folk had to do was to wait until the restart box appeared, then open the PC clock and rewind it a couple of hours. This threw a spanner in the countdown and allowed time for the patch to be downloaded.
 
Like you say, scaremongering; panic people into mass hysteria about nothing much at all.
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