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Saturday August 27, 2005 11:27 pm

2 Arrests Made in Zotob Worm Investigation


Posted by Kristin Wenzel Categories: Internet


After a particularly destructive rampage across the Internet, leaving a wake of disabled and broken PCs, authorities have arrested two young men in connection with the case. 

Authorities in Morocco and Turkey have arrested two people believed to be responsible for unleashing a computer worm that infected networks at U.S. companies and government agencies earlier this month, the FBI said Friday.

Farid Essebar, 18, was arrested in Morocco, while Atilla Ekici, 21, was arrested in Turkey on Thursday, the FBI said. They will be prosecuted in those countries, the FBI said.

The worm targeted critical security flaws in Microsoft Windows operating systems, with Windows 2000 most susceptible to infection.  Mac users, as usual, were not affected.

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