 A hacker named Iraq Resistance said he made the "Here you have" worm so people can hear his voice. He said he is not a negative person because he did not smash infected computers.
| Smash? Is that ability now available at a distance? I really must work harder to keep up. |
The "Here you have" worm recently attacked computers around the world with spam e-mails. Iraq Resistance criticised the U.S. war in Iraq and posted a whiny video using a computer-generated voice on Sunday. He said that his action was not as bad as that of Terry Jones, the controversial, Koran-threatening pastor.
| But in the end Pastor Jones didn't do anything, and promised to continue not doing anything in the future. |
The "Here you have" sent from 6 percent to 14 percent of Internet spam on Thursday affecting Disney, Procter & Gamble, Wells Fargo, and NASA. The worm has a password logging software and a backdoor program that could have allowed Iraq Resistance to control infected computers. The worm, however, was shut down when the Web servers it used to infect machines were also shut down.
SecureWorks researcher Joe Stewart speculated that Iraq Resistance is Libyan and is trying to recruit hackers for a cyber jihad group called Brigades of Tariq ibn Ziyad, the 8th century Muslim commander who conquered much of Spain for the Ummayad Caliphate. Stewart also said that Iraq Resistance may be based in Al-Andalus Spain because of the Spanish theme of the hacker's video. |