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June 28, 2006

Sony virus writers arrested

British police have arrested three men accused of running a botnet which recruited business PCs, using trojans to open allowing access to commercial information.

The interesting thing - as Jeremy Wagstaff reminds us - is that the viruses piggy-backed on the DRM rootkit that Sony BMG installed on its customers' computers.

Posted by cw at June 28, 2006 07:49 PM

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