Krebs on Security – Federal authorities in Atlanta today are expected to announce the arrest and charging of a 24-year-old Russian man who allegedly created and maintained the SpyEye Trojan, a sophisticated botnet creation kit that has been implicated in a number of costly online banking thefts against businesses and consumers.
24-year-old Aleksander Panin is thought to be responsible for SpyEye. According to sources, the U.S. Justice Department is charging Aleksander Panin of Tver, Russia with being part of a gang that robbed banks via the Internet. He was reportedly arrested in the Dominican Republic in June 2013.