Sven Jaschan
p2pnet.net News:- Sasser author Sven Jaschan has been hired as a programmer by German firewall security firm Securepoint, says UK anti-virus firm Sophos which in July claimed 70% of all virus infections in the first six months of 2004 could be linked to Jaschan.
“Jaschan discussed the Netsky worms he was writing in early 2004 with his brothers, sisters and many of his classmates,” says the German magazine Stern.
“They even encouraged me to add something that would cause damage, but that was never what I wanted,” Jaschan says in the magazine, whcih goes on that eventually, everyone in Jaschan’s class knew what he was doing, “and Jaschan claims that some of them helped him distribute his malicious code”.
That former virus writers can gain “hasty employment” with security companies sends out a dangerous message, says Sophos.
Jaschan was recently indicted for computer espionage.
