A man and a woman have been arrested in England, for allegedly spreading banking malware. They were charged with using the ZeuS (or Zbot) Trojan to steal bank passwords. In, bloggers cheer the Brits for cracking down. November 19, 2009. Your humble blogwatcher selected these bloggy morsels for your enjoyment. Not to mention monoface.

Jeremy Kirk beams down: British police said Wednesday they've made the first arrests in Europe of two people for using ZeuS, a sophisticated malicious software program that can scoop up any sensitive information on a PC. ZeuS is an advanced piece of malicious software. If installed on a PC, it can send spam, steal financial or other data or conduct a distributed denial-of-service attack against other computers.

How To Turn Creative Mode To Survival Mode Minecraft Pe. In the case of the two people arrested, ZeuS had been configured to steal. 'millions of'. Online bank account details and passwords and send that information to remote servers, according to police. John Leyden adds: The unnamed man and woman, both 20.

[from] Manchester. Were arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police's newly established Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) on 3 November. The pair were arrested for offences under 1990 Computer Misuse Act and the 2006 Fraud Act, questioned by police and released on bail. The Manchester arrests are the first made in Europe in connection with the malware. ZeuS is typically spammed out to prospected marks in emails with malicious attachments. A variety of social engineering tricks are used to con victims into opening these messages, or into following a link to a booby-trapped website and becoming infected. Here's the inevitable Graham Cluley: Zbot is one of the most notorious pieces of malware of recent times.