When Russian authorities nabbed the alleged master hacker behind the Blackhole malware kit last week, they sent a shockwave through the digital underground. As soon as news spread that Blackhole’s author, known as “Paunch,” and his partners had been arrested, the malware apparently began to suffer. Blackhole, typically updated once or twice a day, wasn’t updated for four days. What’s more, the service used to encrypt the Blackhole kit went offline. “Paunch is a big deal,” said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure.
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'Paunch' Arrest Puts Blackhole Hackers on Data Diet
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. October 14, 2013 02:45 PMWhen Russian authorities nabbed the alleged master hacker behind the Blackhole malware kit last week, they sent a shockwave through the digital underground. As soon as news spread that Blackhole’s author, known as “Paunch,” and his partners had been arrested, the malware apparently began to suffer. Blackhole, typically updated once or twice a day, wasn’t updated for four days. What’s more, the service used to encrypt the Blackhole kit went offline. “Paunch is a big deal,” said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure.