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Two Arrested For Zbot Trojan
An anonymous reader writes "Officers from the Metropolitan Police's Central e-Crime Unit have made Europe's first arrests in the battle against the ZeuS or Zbot Trojan which threatened to compromise thousands of computers. Officers arrested a man and woman, both aged 20 years, in Manchester for offenses under the 1990 Computer Misuse Act and the 2006 Fraud Act. Both suspects were interviewed by PCeU detectives and have been bailed for further in-depth inquiries to be completed. The arrests in connection with the malware represent some of the first in the world, and the first in Europe to combat the distribution and control of ZeuS."
2 down, a billion to go. Sorry, I just can't get excited about 2 people caught.
With the cops on the hunt, it sounds like people writing malicious code will have to be spending a lot more time indoors.
Oh, wait...
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Zbot. This is a Windows, thing, right? So if you don't use Windows, it's not a problem.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
I try to be sympathetic to windows users, and even try to help on occasion
but I am slowly losing any semblance of a positive attitude.
The "who cares about windows users" keeps getting stronger.
I can't protect everybody from themselves.
Can we take turns bludgeoning them with a pitchfork?
it would be interesting to find out if they are merely patsies for a larger effort, or are genuinely isolated and inspired script kiddies
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
They've both been bailed, so presumably they're now furiously DBAN'ing everything they own.
Idiots are everywhere. You think people won't write malware or trojans if macos or linux suddenly jumped to a majority market share? People write the shit for windows because its what everyone uses. Why would I bother with 1.2% of the linux users when theres 92% of windows users available? Nothing is idiot proof, not even linux.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
So this is the program that allows me to auto aim in Quake 2, yet is still pleasurable and safe to use.
I guess this sounds alright.
"Hegelians, who love a synthesis, will probably conclude that he wears a wig." - Bertrand Russell
.. and thinking "20 year old woman" is tantamount to slashrotica?
I record my sleeptalking
If they've been arrested and questioned by the Metropolitan Police, then they'll have had a good kicking by now. Jolly good too!
why the Met had to get involved. surely, every time the Police in London want to arrest someone in Manchester (usually terror related!) they should be the ones doing the support. Or is it another case of our Southern masters not trusting anyone north of the Watford Gap?
"The Zbot Trojan is believed to have infected and subsequently accessed personal information from tens of thousands of computers around the world"
What Operating System did this Zbot trojan run on ?
Thankfully I live in Somerset, where we have a police force that doesn't try to imitate the worst excesses of US cop shows.
From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."
Maybe, but accurate.