Law enforcement officials have arrested two men suspected of unleashing of a pair of computer worms, including last week's Zotob, which hit servers at Holden, American Express, The New York Times and elsewhere.
Farid Essebar, age 18, a Moroccan national born in Russia, was arrested in Morocco, and 21-year-old Atilla Ekici, a Turkish resident, was arrested in Turkey, Paul Bresson, a spokesman for the FBI, said on Friday. Both suspects were detained on Thursday and will be prosecuted in the countries in which they were arrested, Bresson said.
Bresson said that Essebar, who went by the nickname "Diabl0," and Ekici, known as "Coder," are suspected of creating both the Mytob and Zotob worms.
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