'Now that authorities have apprehended the alleged writer of Zotob, an interesting facet of the story has emerged: Diabl0, the author, may have been paid to write the virus. A story from Elizabeth Montalbano of the IDG News Service identifies the suspects as Atilla Ekici, 21, of Turkey and Farid Essebar, 18, of Morocco. Montalbano reports: Ekici went under the code name of "Coder" and Essebar used the code name "Diabl0," said Louis M. Reigel III, assistant director of the FBI Cyber Division, in a conference call Friday. Ekici apparently paid Essebar a sum of money to write the worms...'

Originally by Tom Sullivan at InfoWorld TechWatch, 11:28 AM

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