ZeuS Trojan Gang Faces Justice
Summary: U.K. authorities convicted the 13th and final defendant from a group arrested last year and accused of running an international cybercrime syndicate that laundered millions stolen with the ZeuS banking Trojan, with the gang thought to have stolen nearly £3 million (USD $4.6M) from U.K. banks and believed responsible for aiding theft of at least USD $3 million from U.S. banks and businesses in the past two years. The convictions came days after U.S. authorities announced the guilty plea of the 27th and final individual arrested last year in New York in a related international money-laundering scheme, in which 37 Russian and Eastern European students were charged, two entered deferred prosecution agreements, and eight remain fugitives.
What's compelling: The people described as the true masterminds of these ZeuS-powered bank heists reside in Donetsk, Ukraine, and have yet to be charged with any crime, and five individuals detained in Ukraine last year as the operation's coders and exploiters were released without charges.
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