From Kaspersky’s Viruslist.com:
Today Nikolay Patrushev, head of the Federal Security Services, announced the results of the measures taken to combat cyber crime in 2007.
Among other information, it was announced that it had been established who was the author of the notorious Pinch Trojan – two Russian virus writers called Ermishkin and Farkhutdinov. The investigation will soon be completed and taken to court.
It’s well known that Pinch is one of the most popular Trojan programs with Russian malicious users. The Trojan makes it possible to steal email, icq and other account data, including to network services and application. The authors of this program, also known as Damrai and Scratch, used Pinch to build a criminal industry.
Anyone who wants can order a customized version of the Trojan, and also get ‘technical support’ from the authors of the program. Russian hacker forums were flooded with advertisements for this ‘service’.
I wonder if they will be able to ferret out other writers such as the creators of Mpack?
[tags]Pinch, Pinch Trojan, Malware, Russian Police[/tags]
