Season of convictions Posted by Ero @ 08:37 GMT

The author of the backdoor Cabrotor (aka Cabronator), the 26 years old spanish man �scar L�pez Hinarejos, has been convited to 2 years in jail. According to Spanish media La Vanguardia, this is the first case in which a virus writer is sentenced to jail in Spain.

More infomation (only in spanish) is given in El Mundo and El Peri�dico. It is also possible to read about it from El Pais and La Vanguardia (both require registration).

A description of the backdoor can be found here.

The following picture shows the configuration screen of he backdoor server. (Picture copyright Kaspersky Labs)

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