Fund to Save Sasser Author

Sasser Author Also May Be Tried as Juvenille

Two bits of news relevant to the prosecution of suspected Sasser creator Sven Jaschan today. First of all, BBC News reports that a “Support Sasser” fund/scam has been started. At the time of this writing, the Paypal account that accepted donations was down. From the site:

Do you feel like you're a part of the security scene? Give the SASSER author a better time in jail then. Sven Jaschan really needs your support in a time like this, with multi-million dollar law suits ahead. After all, SASSER was just a harmless wake-up call to the world.

Although there are immediately visible flaws in any argument that Sasser was “harmless,” this did not stop a few people from donating small sums. A few days before the donation system was taken down, about $70 had been donated.

In other news, the author of Sasser will be tried as a juvenile defendant. The E-Commerce Times reports that Sven Jaschan was arrested only two days after his eighteenth birthday, and all the crimes he is accused of committing took place before he was legally an adult. This is likely to mean a lesser sentence. Various lawsuits have been mulled over the Sasser worm and the Netsky family of worms, which Jaschan is also believed to have been involved in authoring, but at this time any formal action is pending.