In case you haven't seen it:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/26/AR2005082601201.html

"Louis M. Reigel III, director of the FBI's Cyber Division, said evidence indicates Ekici paid Essebar to develop the worms, which the two used for financial gain. Reigel declined to say whether the men were connected to a larger criminal enterprise. But according to information released by the Moroccan government, the two men are alleged to have forwarded financial information stolen from victims' computers to a credit card fraud ring."

Seems these things are used for financial gain more and more frequently, in addition to the financial loss from all of the comanies and individuals whose networks and systems went down because of it.

fes

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