FBI arrests young Turk and Moroccan for Zotob
Network Security · 2005
The FBI, in concert with Microsoft and law enforcement authorities in Turkey and Morocco, has announced the arrests of two men believed to be responsible for the ‘Mytob’ and ‘Zotob’ worms that inflicted news-grabbing attention on US and British news organizations earlier in August. CNN, The New York Times , and the London Financial Times were among those who fell prey Zotob, which began spreading on 14 August and had in its sights the five-year old Windows 2000 system. Zotob and its variants spread via a flaw in Microsoft's Windows Plug-and-Play functionality. The worms compromise systems by sending data on port 445. If a computer is infected with the program, the worm creates an FTP server and uses it to upload the worm to other systems.