The 29A group of malware writers has announced its exit from the “business”. Or so they say...
The announcement was posted by group member VirusBuster on the 29A website. It reads the following:
“I tried to contact ValleZ for some time in order to take a decision together about the future of 29A with no luck therefore I decided to take the decision alone. And my decision is that 29A goes officially retired. I feel this is fair because I am kinda the alpha and the omega of the group. 29A was born in Dark Node, my BBS, and I am the last active member of the group. My last words as 29A member are for all the people that worked hard to make of this group the best one: Thank you very much! Regards, VirusBuster/29A
29A has left the building!”
The 29A group (the name was taken from the hexadecimal for the number 666) is responsible for several famous viruses:
- Cabir - targeted at Symbian mobile phones - Duts - the first ever Pocket PC virus - Haiku - it generated Japanese-style poetry - Stream - the first virus to take advantage of NTFS Alternate Data Streams - Lindose – successful at infecting both Windows and Linux OSs - Donut - a .NET aware Windows file infector).
Truth be told, the announcement doesn't come as a surprise. The group has been in hibernation for some time and the authorities investigating the group's activities have everything to do with it.
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