A Busy Week for Cybercrime Justice
Summary: Russian authorities arrested several men alleged to be behind the Carberp banking Trojan and obtained a guilty verdict against spammer Leo Kuvayev, while U.S. prosecutors secured a 33-month sentence for Belarusian Dmitry Naskovets, who ran the call service CallService.biz, and a guilty plea from a Russian man in a ZeuS Trojan gang that stole more than $3 million from U.S. businesses. Russian authorities say the Carberp gang used the malware to raid at least 130 million rubles (about $4.43 million) from more than 100 banks worldwide, and Kuvayev's most serious offense carries a penalty of 20 years in prison.
What you should know: The Carberp crew pulled roughly $4.43 million from over 100 banks, yet the U.S. sentences handed down the same week were 33 months and two years - a gap that tells you how much of the risk still sits with the institutions and businesses left holding the loss.
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