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US Takes Out Gang That Used Zeus Malware To Steal Millions
coondoggie (973519) writes "The US Department of Justice charged nine members of a group that used Zeus malware to infect thousands of business computers and illegally siphon-off millions of dollars into over-seas bank accounts. The DoJ said an indictment was unsealed in connection with the arraignment this week at the federal courthouse in Lincoln, Neb., of two Ukrainian nationals, Yuriy Konovalenko, 31, and Yevhen Kulibaba, 36. Konovalenko and Kulibaba were recently extradited from the United Kingdom."
This is what the US government should be doing: protecting US banking interests and keeping depositors safe from malware.
The thing about leaving Heartbleed viable as a backdoor for national security exploits is that it exposes one's own citizens to attacks such as this.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
Are you some kind of moral degenerate that allows proper nouns in Scrabble or just a racist.
As we have seen in 2008, disrupting the US banking system really wreaks havoc on out economy - and that was done by legal entities.
Now, if some foreign crooks or whatever causes us to lose trust in our banking system further, I can only guess what the long term consequences will be.
Never the less, until the our banking system gets its act together and takes security seriously instead of counting Washington (their Congressman bitches) to clean up their messes, we can expect more of this in the future.
There have been some fishy extraditions over the years, but the world is better off with these guys out of circulation.
Now we need to find the CrypoLocker perpetrators, and "render" them to a Brazilian favela.