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Monday review - the hot 19 stories of the week
It's that time of the week again - here's your roundup of everything we wrote in the last seven days.
Alleged "SpyEye" mastermind extradited to US
The FBI suspects that 24-year-old Hamza Bendelladj, an Algerian national, developed, marketed, distributed and controlled the notorious botnet toolkit, used to steal millions of dollars from online bank accounts.
UK’s top ecrime investigator describes a life fighting cybercrime
UK Cybercrime investigator and Sophos consultant Bob Burls has been on the inside of some of the biggest law enforcement takedowns of the last decade.
Baltic SpyEye malware trio sent to prison
Despite the cross-border challenges of prosecuting cybercrime, the cops sometimes do get their man - or men.
We think it's worth reminding you when this happens.
Microsoft and US Marshals bring down Zeus botnet servers [VIDEO]
Microsoft, working with others in the financial services and computer security industry, has disrupted a number of botnets being used by the Zeus malware family, allegedly responsible for nearly half a billion dollars in damages.
SpyEye bank Trojan hides its fraud footprint
The latest variants of the information stealing SpyEye Trojan are now specializing in hiding fraudulent transactions from your online banking statements. Should we rethink giving up on our paper statements?
SSCC 73 - Patch Tuesday, UBS, SpyEye, Twit.tv and Windows 8
Paul Ducklin joined Chet this week from a real-life Denial of Service situation at the domestic airport in Sydney, Australia. Topics discussed include Patch Tuesday, UBS losing £2.3bn, SpyEye on Android, Twit.tv hacked and Windows 8 including anti-virus.
SpyEye targeting Android users - just a copy of Zeus's strategy?
After the discovery an Android edition of the Zeus malware kit we did not have to wait long for a SpyEye Android release.
Vanja Švajcer, SophosLabs Principal Resarcher, investigates the differences.









