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Botherders seek 'real' job

Unread postby Sludge3000 » May 4th, 2010, 12:29 pm

Two of the three suspects arrested for allegedly running the infamous Mariposa botnet in February personally applied for jobs with Spanish firm Panda Security, whose researchers helped track them down just a month earlier.

The brazen duo optimistically doorstepped Panda Labs technical director, Luis Corrons, on 22 March, in a hunt for work. The pair (unnamed by Spanish authorities and known only by their nicknames of Netkairo and Ostiator) were suspected, along with other three people in Spain, of running a 12.7 million strong zombie botnet.


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Re: Botherders seek 'real' job

Unread postby Elrond » May 12th, 2010, 12:33 pm

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