Microsoft names Zeus ringleaders and notifies FBI

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/03/microsoft_names_zeus_ringleaders/

By Iain Thomson in San Francisco
The Register
3rd July 2012

Microsoft has named two individuals who it says are the leaders behind 
the Zeus botnet and has passed on its dossier on them to the FBI.

Redmond fingered Yevhen Kulibaba and Yuriy Konovalenko as the two key 
players behind the botnet in an amended criminal complaint and told the 
FBI that the two were key to both the botnet itself, and to finding 
other individuals who were responsible for spreading an operating the 
malware and laundering the funds it was used to steal.

The FBI isn't going to have to look far for the duo however, as they are 
serving four years sentences in British prisons for Zeus-related 
charges. After they have finished their terms at Her Majesty's pleasure 
then the US can join the queue of countries looking to extradite the 
pair.

The two men, both Ukrainian, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to 
defraud and received four year and eight months sentences. They, and 11 
other co-conspirators, were arrested after an investigation by the UK's 
Central E-Crime Unit (PCeU).

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