A 24-year-old man from Algeria, who is suspected to have helped in the development of the SpyEye trojan, is extradited to the United States. The SpyEye trojan is widely used to login, to steal, example of bank accounts.
The Algarijn, Hamza Bendelladj, between 2009 and 2011, together with a number of others the SpyEye-trojan have designed, on criminal forums have touted and sold, reports IDG. Bendelladj was early this year arrested in the Thai capital Bangkok; last Thursday took the delivery place. He is on a total of 23 points charged.
Along with Zeus is SpyEye, one of the most commonly used trojans and the black market sold. The SpyEye-trojan allows attackers to remotely access the pcs of infected victims. So the attacker can make screenshots and data that are sent to the internet intercept. This may include, for example login data or credit card numbers, with which fraud can be perpetrated.
Bendelladj would the trojan not only have designed, but also have made use of to commit fraud. He was also supposed to botnets have managed. One of the botnets would have made use of a command-and-control server in the U.s. state of Georgia, and on that server to say the Us authorities information 253 financial institutions have detected.
If Bendelladj is found guilty, hang him hefty penalties above the head. He can thirty years imprisonment for conspiracy to commit bankfraude, twenty years in prison for each of the ten indictments for bankfraude, five years in prison for conspiracy to commit computer fraud and ten years for each of the eleven indictments for computer fraud. That equates to a total maximum prison sentences of 345 years, apart from the maximum fine of 14 million dollars.
