Hacker uses cat to deliver virus clues to Japanese police

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http://news.techworld.com/security/3419296/hacker-uses-cat-deliver-virus-clues-japanese-police/

By John E Dunn
Techworld
08 January 2013

The battle between a mysterious hacker and Japanese police has taken a 
bizarre turn with the news that the authorities have recovered a memory 
card containing new clues sent to them strapped to a cat.

The card is reported by Japanese media as containing evidence that its 
sender was behind the ‘iesys.exe’ virus used by the hacker to 
anonymously send messages from remote PCs threatening to plant bombs in 
schools, including one attended by grandchildren of Japan’s Emperor 
Akihito.

Issued over several months in 2012, the threats explain why the police 
issued a reward of 3 million yen (about £21,400) for information leading 
to the individual’s capture, but the affair has also grown into a huge 
embarrassment for police.

In October it emerged that police has arrested and extracted confessions 
from four individuals whose PCs had apparently sent the threatening 
messages only for the real hacker to reveal that they had been hijacked 
using the ‘remote control virus’.

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