China jails four over Panda worm
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Fujacks stole gamers' IDs China has jailed four men convicted of involvement in a malware-fuelled scam that led to the infection of hundreds of thousands of Windows PCs across the country.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Two Moroccan men have been jailed for releasing the Zotob computer worm, which wreaked havoc on an estimated 250,000 Windows PCs last year. Farid Essebar, 19, of Morocco was sentenced to two years in prison on Tuesday by a Moroccan court, according to a report by Agence France-Presse. An accomplice, Achraf Bahloul, also of Morocco, received a one-year sentence, the report said. A third man, 22 year-old Atilla Ekici, of Turkey has been charged with financing the attack, which shut down PCs in a number of major corporations in mid-August 2005. The worm primarily affected Windows 2000 systems, taking advantage of a bug in the operating system's Plug and Play service that had been patched by Microsoft just days before the outbreak. Though it did not infect as many computers as more widespread worms such as Sasser or MyDoom, Zotob did take out systems at media outlets, including Cable News Network LP LLLP (CNN), prompting widespread publicity. Ekici and Essebar, known also by their hacker names of "Coder" and "Diabl0," respectively, were arrested just 12 days after the release of Zotob, but authorities had also been investigating 16 other individuals in connection with a credit card theft ring that may have been linked to the worms. It is not unusual for hackers to create networks of compromised computers, like the one created by the Zotob worm, for identity theft, said Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant with antivirus vendor Sophos PLC. REFERENCES: Zotob arrests point to cybercrime nexus, Computerworld (US online), Aug. 31, 2005CA: Windows 2000 worms now affecting 250,000, Aug. 17, 2005Authorities make arrests linked to worm spate, Aug. 26, 2005
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BEIJING - A Chinese business executive was sentenced to death for swindling $385 million from investors in a bogus ant-breeding scheme, a court official said Thursday.
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SHANGHAI - The Chinese government said yesterday it had arrested 774 people in the past two months as part of a nationwide crackdown on the production and sale of tainted food, drugs, and agricultural products.
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Three Chinese who tried to smuggle fossils abroad by sending them through express mail have been arrested, the Xinhua news agency said on Friday.
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China has warned Internet users to be wary of downloading virus-infected mooncake greeting cards ahead of the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival after a wave of Internet worms hit hard-drives last year.
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China executed four people, including  employees of two of its Big Four state banks, for fraud  totaling $15 million, the Xinhua state news agency said  Tuesday, amidst a high-profile campaign against financial  crime.
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The Zafi.D worm, which disguises itself as an e-mail holiday greeting, is currently the most frequently detected worldwide virus, software security company Panda Software said this week.
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Two senior Chinese officials in Hong Kong are given long jail terms after being convicted of spying for the UK.
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RABAT, Morocco - Two Moroccan men have been sentenced to prison terms for helping write the Zotob computer virus that attacked major U.S. networks last year, a court official said Wednesday.
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Scores of people including a key suspect are arrested in China over slave labour in illegal factories, police say.
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The unusually harsh sentence comes at a time of concerns for the quality and safety of Chinaâs food and drug system.
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A male panda at the Beijing Zoo once bitten by a drunk tourist attacked a teenager, ripping chunks out of the boy's legs, officials and a newspaper said Tuesday
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A Chinese court has sentenced a man to 19 years in prison for trafficking pornographic DVDS, state media reports.
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Four people have been sentenced to jail time and tens of millions of dollars in fines for buying discounted Microsoft software and then illegally reselling it at a profit.
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Four local officials have been detained and face a charge of dereliction of duty over a coal mine fire in central China which killed 70 miners last month, state media said.
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Four people were arrested in the United States Monday on charges of spying for China in two separate cases, including one involving the US space shuttle, the Justice Department said.