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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

More Germans arrested in hunt for malware writers

The Age reports that: "A 21-year-old German man has been arrested and charged under the country's computer sabotage law for creating a malicious computer code, says a media release from anti-virus company Sophos. The suspect was apprehended in the southern town of Waldshut on Friday. He admitted responsibility for creating the Agobot Trojan, it says."

This follows but is unrelated to the arrest of Sven Jaschan last week -- he confessed to creating and distributing the Sasser worm -- and raids on five homes in northern Germany on Tuesday in connection with the Netsky worm, as Reuters reports.

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