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NBC News' Richard Engel creates a "honeypot" to test the likelihood of getting hacked while traveling in Russia.

The author of the infamous SpyEye Trojan pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

SpyEye, a derivative of Zeus was, before his arrest in July 2013, the world's foremost banking malware, having infected a reputed 1.4 million computers.

The Russian man who created the SpyEye Trojan used to attack countless millions of online bank accounts has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in an Atlanta court room.

Score one big win for law enforcement. -- Aleksandr Andreevich Panin plead guilty on Tuesday in an Atlanta courtroom to charges pegging him as the mastermind behind the notorious SpyEye banking Trojan.