back to article Infosec workers swipe Q-tip across 'net: Ew, there's Dridex on it

The Dridex banking botnet is continuing to show some signs of life even after a high-profile FBI-led disruption operation earlier this month. Servers associated with Dridex were seized in a co-ordinated operation on 13 September weeks after a suspect, Moldovan Andrey Ghinkul, was arrested in Cyprus in late August. But the …

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  2. g e

    Just wondering...

    Does anybody nicked abroad ever get extradited to anywhere OTHER than The Empire USA?

    Don't remember seeing anyone getting bagged by the French or the Aussies, for example (though I presume it must happen sometimes)

    1. NotBob

      Re: Just wondering...

      It probably happens, but we've got the "best" publicity team...

    2. Crazy Operations Guy

      Re: Just wondering...

      A large number of people get extradited to Thailand each year, same with a lot of the other East Asian nations. Its just that those people are usually mere common criminals that no one cares about rather than the high-profile people that the US wants to get their hands on.

      Right after WWII, there were quite a few Nazis that were handed over to either Western Europe or the USSR. There are also quite a few people being sent from Europe to answer for crimes in Middle Eastern countries.

    3. oneeye

      Re: Just wondering...

      Perhaps YOU would like to pay for the lawyers who file the extradition papers,and the law enforcement that will transfer the criminals,and then the lawyers and court cost to prosecute,AND the COST to incarcerate them all......No ? That's what I thought. So before you Bitch,or whine, try engaging that thing upstairs. Before engaging your mandibles.

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