Fergie's Tech Blog

The Scoop on the m00p Group

Brian Krebs writes on Security Fix:

Various European media outlets are reporting that investigators abroad have arrested three men they sare are connected to a rather aggressive online criminal gang that goes by the name "m00p."

According to a story on the Times of London's Web site, the trio included a 63-year-old from England, a 28-year-old from Scotland and a 19-year-old from Finland." The piece notes that "all are accused of creating trojan viruses attached to spam e-mails with the intention of causing a 'massive infection.'"

I'm writing about this because I have crossed paths with m00p (referred to as "Moop" in the Times story) various times over the past couple of years in the process of reporting other stories, and I can attest to the group's malicious intent as well as the sheer size of its prodigious botnets.

posted by Fergie @ 6/27/2006 10:50:00 AM