Two Arrested For Zbot Trojan 95
An anonymous reader writes "Officers from the Metropolitan Police's Central e-Crime Unit have made Europe's first arrests in the battle against the ZeuS or Zbot Trojan which threatened to compromise thousands of computers. Officers arrested a man and woman, both aged 20 years, in Manchester for offenses under the 1990 Computer Misuse Act and the 2006 Fraud Act. Both suspects were interviewed by PCeU detectives and have been bailed for further in-depth inquiries to be completed. The arrests in connection with the malware represent some of the first in the world, and the first in Europe to combat the distribution and control of ZeuS."
2 Down... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Not mentioned in the article... (Score:4, Insightful)
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Windows only / not windows only (Score:2, Insightful)
I try to be sympathetic to windows users, and even try to help on occasion
but I am slowly losing any semblance of a positive attitude.
The "who cares about windows users" keeps getting stronger.
I can't protect everybody from themselves.
Re:Windows only / not windows only (Score:1, Insightful)
Actually, not all Windows users are total mouth breathing idiots. How many people here are Windows admins FFS? I've been using it since 3.1 and have never had a virus etc. own one of my machines. Linux in all it's incarnations is fun to use, but it doesn't cover everything I need a computer for...yet.
Who the fuck modded this +4 Insightful? Somebody with an account copy and paste this for this dweeb! This is why I don't bother to get an account!
Oh please (Score:3, Insightful)
Idiots are everywhere. You think people won't write malware or trojans if macos or linux suddenly jumped to a majority market share? People write the shit for windows because its what everyone uses. Why would I bother with 1.2% of the linux users when theres 92% of windows users available? Nothing is idiot proof, not even linux.
Re:2 Down... (Score:5, Insightful)
I would have imagined that if these two were smart then they would have completely covered/obfuscated their tracks every step of the way. From propagating the first copy of the trojan to making sure any profits/information was sent through an elaborate network of communication-encrypted proxies before arriving on a remote server from which they could connect to using a similar but different network of communication-encrypted proxies and download/view the information.
I'd really love to know if they were just stupid, or if someone else was just way smarter. For the stories sake, I hope its the latter.
Re:Windows only / not windows only (Score:5, Insightful)
The only thing I know for certain is that I have more control over a Linux machine and as such have found them easier to diagnose and fix. Oh, and tonnes easier to reliably lock down.
Re:Oh please (Score:1, Insightful)
Nothing is idiot proof, not even linux.
yeah but at least on Linux you get a better class of idiot.
Re:Oh please (Score:3, Insightful)
Better class OS will have better class Trojans written for it
And with this kind of competition, quality improves, and everyone benefits! Win-win!
Oh, wait...
Re:Oh please (Score:3, Insightful)
"You try to create an idiot proof system, mother nature just creates a 'better' idiot." :)
Re:"National policing" (Score:2, Insightful)