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South Park Inspires Virus-writing Gang
By: Sharon Khare   |   Jun 28, 2006
Authorities in the UK and Finland have arrested three men in connection with computer worm attacks.

The British Metropolitan Police's Computer Crime Unit, the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation and the Finnish Pori Police Department, have arrested a 63-year-old man in Suffolk, a 28-year-old man in Scotland, and a 19-year-old man in Finland. The men, who are all suspected of being members of the m00p virus-writing gang, have been arrested in connection with a conspiracy to infect computers with malware.

Police are now examining computer equipment seized at the residential addresses raided for evidence.

The m00p group are believed to have written malware in order to create a zombie network (or botnet) of compromised computers under their control. Analysis by Sophos experts have confirmed that there are many pieces of malware which include references to the 00p gang including the W32/Dogbot spyware worm, Troj/Hackarmy-C, Troj/Santabot-A, Troj/Shuckbot-A, W32/Rbot-BF, and W32/Tibick-A.

References to m00p are are also contained inside the Stinx Trojan horse, which was spammed out widely attached to emails with the subject line "Photo Approval Needed".

"Some believe that the virus writing gang chose the name of their group after an episode of the South Park cartoon series where the characters formed a band called 'Moop'. The episode involved some non-too-subtle arguments about how filesharing affects the music industry," explained Cluley. "However, there is also an episode of the Seinfeld comedy show where the 'Moops' are mentioned during a game of Trivial Pursuit against the Bubble Boy. Ironically, the character of the Bubble Boy was the inspiration for another virus in 1999."
 
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