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Conficker suspect brought to book in Beavertown?

While the rest of the world bit its nails in terror that the Conficker worm would somehow rise up and swamp the internet on 1 April, Russian wags seized on the opportunity to craft a subtle April Fool joke. A story by Russian news agency RIA Novost that police in Belarus had arrested a pair of suspects looked plausible enough at …

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Anonymous Coward
Paris Hilton

lolz

Wow, that was a hilarious april fool they played there.

Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

Curious Russian name.

And Kandyba?

Andrew Moore
Coat

And...

If you look on their web forum there's a lot of upper case cyrillic ranting from one Sara Beeovitch

EnricoSuarve
Coat

Russians have a Scunthorpe?

Poor bastards

Mine'll be the flame-retardant one...

Sir Runcible Spoon
Joke

re:comedy equivalent of Scunthorpe

So, like Rakfannynov then?

Sillyfellow
Thumb Down

not funny

people should not be making jokes and disinformation about this very serious problem.

amanfromMars

Conficker... the Al Qaeda False Flag Operation of the Binary World?

"not funny ... people should not be making jokes and disinformation about this very serious problem." ...... By Sillyfellow Posted Thursday 2nd April 2009 12:47 GMT

And that very serious problem would be exactly what, Sillyfellow? A supposed worm which apparently does nothing or nothing malicious. Although of course, that is not to say that IT cannot crash corrupted systems but that would be a Public Service and not a serious problem either.

Igor Krein

Just to make it clear

This is the original source: http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=ru&js=n&u=http://webplanet.ru/news/security/2009/03/31/conficker.html&sl=ru&tl=en (there is more "information" here ;))

Anonymous Coward
Coat

Seriously now

I don't like to brag but it wasn't created by the Chinese or by the Russians.

I made it at home in an attempt to eventually land a job as a highly paid IT security contractor.

It's a bit too high profile for that though, so I'm off to write a less nasty one that'll help get my foot on the ladder.

Mine's the "L33T" one with the source code, hacker magazine and "Big Book of Lies" in the pocket.

Anonymous Coward
Linux

re: not funny

"people should not be making jokes and disinformation about this very serious problem."

You're right, people should be wiping their machines and installing Linux on them to avoid these problems.

But they're not, so apparently nobody fucking cares about this "very serious problem".

David Wiernicki

Wait...

...a Russian web site printing dubious news? Say it isn't so...

Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

"from one Sara Beeovitch"

That would be "Sara Beeyova" (Сара Биёва)...

Juan Inamillion

Oh come on....

"Lieutenant Andrew Kandyba...

Andy Candy Bar?

Perlease.... Bit more coffee needed at Vulture Central, methinks.

Bounty

decrypt skype?

I like the subtle jab at the CIA or whatever. Didn't they post a big reward for anyone that could decrypt skype calls?

Kieron McCann

NSFW

It would have been good to know that the link to the Babrusk web site is most certainly NSFW

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