The recent spate of computer worms have included elements of spamming and a supposed battle of words between different malware authors, but the real intent of the dueling viruses is to deny site availability to online gaming companies and other sites that have not complied with Russian mobsters’ demands, Gartner research director Richard Stiennon told TechNewsWorld. “The worm writers this time around are really cyber criminals in Russia,” Stiennon said of the Bagle, Netsky and MyDoom variants.
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Worm Variants Part of Russian Mafia Extortion Scheme
Posted by: Jay Lyman March 15, 2004 10:00 AMThe recent spate of computer worms have included elements of spamming and a supposed battle of words between different malware authors, but the real intent of the dueling viruses is to deny site availability to online gaming companies and other sites that have not complied with Russian mobsters’ demands, Gartner research director Richard Stiennon told TechNewsWorld. “The worm writers this time around are really cyber criminals in Russia,” Stiennon said of the Bagle, Netsky and MyDoom variants.