Citadel Botnet Operator Gets 4.5 Years In Prison

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @12:23AM from the in-the-jailhouse-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. Department of Justice has announced that Dimitry Belorossov, a.k.a. Rainerfox, an operator of the "Citadel" malware, has been sentenced to 4.5 years in prison following a guilty plea. Citadel was a banking trojan capable of stealing financial information. Belorossov and others distributed it through spam emails and malvertising schemes. He operated a 7,000-strong botnet with the malware, and also collaborated to improve it. The U.S. government estimates Citadel was responsible for $500 million in losses worldwide. Belorossov will have to pay over $320,000 in restitution.

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Hail! by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-30 00:32 · Score: 1, Funny

trojan capable of stealing financial information
What about Microsoft, Google etc that do the same thing? Wait, never mind, they're not stealing your information, they're collecting it to "improve their services". I know I can trust a publicly traded American corporation. Hail Satan.