eWeek: Hackers Jailed for Zotob Worm Attack
Two Moroccan hackers have been jailed for creating and distributing the Zotob worm that squirmed through Windows 2000 networks in August 2005.
According to reports out of Morocco, Farid Essebar, the 19-year-old hacker who wrote the worm code and used it to hijack computers globally for use in for-profit botnets, was sentenced to two years in prison for his role in the attack.
Achraf Bahloul, a 22-year-old friend of Essebar, will serve one year in jail.
The fate of Atilla Ekici, of Turkey, who was arrested a year ago after investigators determined he had a “financial relationship” with Essebar, is not yet known.
Essebar, who used the online moniker “Diabl0,” was charged with creating the Zotob attack code and selling it to Ekici, who used the name “Coder.” [Read on]