full-disclosure - Who wrote Sobig?

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From: xslf at xslf.com (Shoshannah Forbes)
Subject: Who wrote Sobig?

On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 21:48 +0000, Author Travis wrote:

> * By releasing the information publicly, we hope to increase tips to
law
>    enforcement concerning the Sobig authorship and spur efforts toward
>    apprehension of the malware author(s);

Ruslan Ibragimov, the Russian developer claimed by the paper above to
the the auther of sobig denies the claims:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2004/11/02/sobig.html
-- 
Shoshannah Forbes
http://www.xslf.com