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Analysis: What's the next malware threat?
Comment We are seeing less of the big virus outbreaks such as Sasser and Blaster, and so some people believe the situation is getting better, when in fact it is getting worse," says Mikko Hypponen, chief technologist at security... [12 Apr 2006]
Sasser writer free to return to his job
News The German 19-year-old who wrote the Sasser email virus, which caused havoc and huge financial damage to businesses worldwide last year, has escaped serious punishment. Earlier this week, silicon.com heard from one... [08 Jul 2005]
'Name and shame virus writers - even the kids,' says expert
News This week Sasser writer Sven Jaschan is on trial in Germany and while he is being tried as a minor because he was 17-years-old at the time he committed his crimes, his identity has not been protected. [06 Jul 2005]
Sasser virus writer admits guilt in trial
News Sven Jaschan, the German teenager accused of writing the Sasser virus, is standing trial today, a year after he was arrested and admitted to writing the damaging worm which caused havoc for many businesses and... [05 Jul 2005]
Virus suspect trial delayed
News Life is already changing for the teen who stands accused of writing and distributing the Sasser virus, as well as being strongly linked to Netsky. In the first six months of the year Netsky and Sasser... [26 Oct 2004]
Security firm justifies virus writer job
News The German security firm that has offered Sasser virus author Sven Jaschan has hit back at critics. Jaschan is currently awaiting trial in Germany for his virus-writing antics and faces up to five years... [24 Sep 2004]
Microsoft's Sasser bounty hangs on conviction
News Sven Jaschan, the alleged author of the Sasser worm and several variants of the Netsky virus, was charged this week by German police, but the informant who led authorities to the suspect will have to wait for a promised... [13 Sep 2004]
Sasser teen charged as 143 victims come forward
News Sven Jaschan, the 18-year-old said to be behind two of the internet's most widespread viruses - Sasser and Netsky - is to be charged by the German police. Despite recent fears that virus writers and spammers were teaming... [09 Sep 2004]
Teen admits eBay domain name hijack
News In May this year another teenager from Lower Saxony was arrested on suspicion of creating the Sasser computer worm that infected millions of computers worldwide. The case against the Sasser suspect is... [07 Sep 2004]
3,300 new viruses hit computers
News Sinclair said that reports showed that calls to the help line at Microsoft headquarters in Germany jumped from 400 a week to 35,000 a week when Sasser first began quickly spreading, while downloads of... [07 Sep 2004]
2004 has become the year of the computer virus
News Increased scrutiny from law enforcement agencies and Microsoft's bounty initiative to encourage people to snitch on virus writers, led to a very high profile arrest in Germany," said Cluley referring to the arrest of... [30 Jul 2004]
Sasser grass in the frame as virus accomplice
News The man who shopped the suspected author of the Sasser virus has himself fallen under suspicion of being involved in malware-making. According to reports in the Germany, the five are students at the same... [17 Jun 2004]
Microsoft bounty snares second virus writer
News The coder was captured on Friday, the same day that an 18-year-old man, also a resident of Germany, was arrested for creating all five versions of the Sasser worm. The two arrests possibly put into... [11 May 2004]
Latest Sasser variant encourages users to patch
News German authorities arrested an 18-year-old resident of Waffensen, a small town in the Lower Saxony region of Germany, late on Friday, according to Microsoft, which tipped off authorities after informants came forward... [11 May 2004]
Leader: Microsoft bounty pays dividends
Leader The writer of the Sasser worm which caused so much disruption last week was arrested over the weekend in Germany and now several individuals, reportedly from the same region of the country, are left with... [10 May 2004]
