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Ne’er-Do-Well News, Volume I

Summary: Krebs on Security's inaugural Ne'er-Do-Well News roundup covers three unrelated items: iPhone remote-access apps called ZeusTerm and Zeus Terminal sold on iTunes by Max Gavryuk, a Ukrainian developer tied to the Styx-Crypt exploit kit, with two of the apps recently pulled from the store for unclear reasons. It also reports that Cameron LaCroix, 25, agreed this month to plead guilty to two counts of computer intrusion and one count of access device fraud for breaking into dozens of law enforcement computer services and changing his community college grades, and that Pavel Vrublevsky was released from a Russian penal colony not even a year into a 2.5-year sentence, with a Novaya Gazeta reporter citing sources saying the release was part of a deal to help build Russia's National Payment System.

What's compelling: Vrublevsky, convicted of paying a botmaster to attack a rival payments firm, was freed early on reporting that he is now helping build Russia's domestic payments network - a reminder that the operators you defend against can end up inside the infrastructure.

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