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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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The internet, it's this shared thing right? So as long as you don't care about using it then yeah it's not your problem.
Yes. The theft of tons of personal information worth a ton of money is something that only affects Windows users.
The eternal struggle of good vs. evil begins within one's self.
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.
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
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.
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It's because the UK's e-crime unit is part of the Metropolitan Police. I guess it doesn't make sense for each police authority to have it's own e-crime unit.
PCeU - Police Central e-crime Unit
So, you're saying in a city with a population density of over 12,000 per square mile there are more reported instances of police mistakes, complaints and allegations of corruption than you find in a largely rural county with a density of 567 per square mile? Shocking.