Phatbot suspect released on bail
News The 21-year-old programmer from Schoenau in Germany who was accused of writing the Phatbot Trojan was released on bail on Friday after spending just one week in custody. Phatbot, also known as Agobot, has caused concern among many security experts...
[May 14, 2004, 17:00]
Latest Phatbot angles for SQL server
News A new variant of the Phatbot worm may be on the loose and attempting to attack SQL Server ports, according to a warning that the SANS Institute issued on Monday. Last month, Phatbot made the rounds, attacking Windows systems by acting as a Trojan...
[April 20, 2004, 9:25]
Bagle uses Outlook flaw to speed replication
News Phatbot, also known as Agobot, is a powerful piece of malware that opens a back door on a computer and connects to its own peer-to-peer network of infected machines. Once a computer is infected and connected to this P2P network, the author of...
[March 18, 2004, 11:55]
The Evolution of Malicious IRC Bots
White Papers This analysis will demonstrate how many of the common IRC bots such as Agobot, Randex, Spybot, and Phatbot actually share common source code. This paper will examine the core features of popular IRC bots and track their evolution from a single code...
[January 4, 2006, 0:01]
Mounties charge teenage virus suspect
News The arrest comes just weeks after German police moved in on two groups of youths in connection with authoring the Sasser worm and the Phatbot Trojan. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have charged a teenager in connection with a worm that could be...
[May 27, 2004, 13:20]
Sasser worm author arrested in Germany
News Separately, police in the southern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg said they had arrested a 21-year-old man who confessed to programing the Internet worm Agobot, which was later renamed as Phatbot. Spokesman Frank Federau for the Lower Saxony police...
[May 9, 2004, 11:05]
'Blaster-type event' forecast for summer
News Symantec confirmed that it has also captured a version of the AgoBot program, known as PhatBot, that appears to have the ability to attack systems through the LSASS vulnerability. Program files designed to exploit two major vulnerabilities in...
[April 29, 2004, 8:30]
Second German arrest 'unrelated to Sasser'
News Moreover, contrary to what some press reports had to say, Nigam did not believe that the person penned a variant of Agobot known as Phatbot. Microsoft confirmed on Monday that German authorities had arrested a man suspected of writing and releasing...
[May 11, 2004, 9:20]
