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Gang Arrested For Stealing Millions Using ZeuS

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the they-own-a-bar-in-philly-too dept.

Orome1 writes "Nineteen people were arrested yesterday in the UK and are suspected of being part of an Eastern European gang that used the ZeuS Trojan to steal online banking credentials from unsuspecting victims and siphon around £2 million per month to their accounts."

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  1. why not by rossdee · · Score: 3, Funny

    Religions have been using to steal money from the believers for thousands of years, its about time the ancient Greeks had a go at it...

  2. Re:FREE KEVIN by mapkinase · · Score: 3, Informative

    Usually "mob" refers to organizations with more diversified activities, traditionally including prostitusion, drugs, racketeering.

    I do not see any reference in the OA to other criminal activities.

    I would not even call it a "gang", which is now reserved to groups united not only by the trade, but also some ideological hocum on top of it.

    It's just a small criminal organization, that's it.

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  3. Re:Shouldn't Software Houses Be Held Accountable? by Spad · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why though? If Joe User is dumb enough to run "JustinBieberNaked.exe" as root/admin/whatever then no amount of OS security will prevent the machine from being compromised. The weakest point of any system is always between the keyboard and the chair.

    Now if you're talking clear negligence in not fixing known issues, etc. then perhaps you have a case, but then why drawn the line at big companies, surely everyone should be equally liable even if they're a one-man operation working out of their bedroom?

  4. Re:FREE KEVIN by Narcocide · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's just a small criminal organization, that's it.

    I think the word you're looking for is "company."