Webcam Virus Writer Arrested in Spain

Filed in: Security — January 25th, 2005

Spanish police have arrested a man suspected of stealing online bank passwords and of writing a virus that is capable of spying on people through their Webcams.

The 37-year-old computer programmer from Madrid, who has only been identified by the initials J.A.S., allegedly wrote the virus and distributed it over a file-sharing network. According to the Spanish Civil Guard, which has not yet revealed the name of the virus, the malicious program was disguised as a music or picture file.

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