J-hacker featured on Colbert Report

[Mike Oxlong]

[wuchan]

it only went as far as it did because it targeted Japanese users.

[Taro Toporific]

[Mike Oxlong]

Ah, mea culpa. Didn't do a search first. Maybe TCR vid could be moved to the original thread, and this repeat deleted.

[Taro Toporific]

Japanese judge jails serial malware author
---VXer riddled P2P with "squid-octopus"----
theregister.co.uk | 22nd July 2011
Japanese authorities have jailed a serial malware writer for two-and-a-half years over his latest creation.
Masato Nakatsuji, 28, was found responsible for writing a strain of malware that spread across the locally popular Winny peer-to-peer file-sharing network last summer, replacing infected files on victims' computers with the image of an orange cartoon octopus. He was convicted of property destruction charges over the creation of the so-called "ika-tako" (squid-octopus) malware. At least three confirmed victims of the malware came forward."It was an ingenious, planned crime to spread a computer virus over a long period of time," said presiding Judge Masaru Okabe, local English language news site the Daily Yomiuri reports. "The defendant committed the crime while he was on probation for a similar charge. I have no choice but to give him a sentence without suspension."
Nakatsuji wrote the malware while still on probation for an earlier, near identical, scam.
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