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The program attached to the emails is actually a keylogger, according to Trend Micro

The program attached to the emails is actually a keylogger, according to Trend Micro

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) teaming with international law enforcement, yesterday fingered Evgeniy Bogachev as the cyber-crime boss operating a Zeus-trojan-based botnet that has allegedly stolen millions from U.S. business bank accounts over the past five years.

One of the most intricate and sophisticated global cybercrime investigations ever completed led to the multinational takedown of the botnet used to feed the banking Trojan Gameover Zeus as well as servers for CryptoLocker ransomware, cyber-intelligence sources say. But what does the takedown mean for banking institutions in the long run?

The US Department of Justice and the FBI have announced a multinational effort that includes Europol and the UK’s National Crime Agency, that has managed to disrupt the GameOver Zeus botnet, believed to be responsible for a raft of financial compromises in the US and around the world.