Worms aren't created by the likes of RTM(1) anymore; malware has been big business, and global, for quite a while now. Conficker was probably created by a professional malware engineer, or a team of them, working for somebody like the Russian Business Network(2)--and in a jurisdiction that makes legal prosecution difficult.
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Worms aren't created by the likes of RTM(1) anymore; malware has been big business, and global, for quite a while now. Conficker was probably created by a professional malware engineer, or a team of them, working for somebody like the Russian Business Network(2)--and in a jurisdiction that makes legal prosecution difficult.
(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris (2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Business_Network
wiki: The RBN has been described by VeriSign as "the baddest of the bad"
Great links. Thanks. Can't believe rtm didn't serve any jail time.