The author of the infamous ZeuS crimeware toolkit may have handed over its development to a former rival in the banking Trojan development business. "Slavik" has handed over the ZeuS source code to SpyEye developer "Harderman", according to an investigation by security blogger and former Washington Post reporter Brian Krebs - …

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Thursday 28th October 2010 11:40 GMT Anonymous Coward

rootlet ?

Rootkit shurly, and nary a mention that ZeuS only works on WIndows ..

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1. Thursday 28th October 2010 13:20 GMT Ralph B
  
  Facebook connection?
  
  And no connection between these Russian trojan development businesses and mail.ru's share ownerships in Facebook and Zynga ... ?
  
  Nah, of course not.
  
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  1. Thursday 28th October 2010 15:38 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    Mail.ru and the trojan connection ?
    
    > And no connection between these Russian trojan development businesses and mail.ru's share ownerships in Facebook and Zynga ... ? Nah, of course not, Ralph B
    
    What exactly is your evidence for a connection between Mail.ru, Russian trojan developers, Zynga and Facebook - provide full citations.
    
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2. Friday 29th October 2010 12:20 GMT Tigra 07
  
  Rootlet?
  
  Am i right to assume a rootlet is a rootkit?
  
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Thursday 28th October 2010 13:37 GMT TeeCee

"...Slavik is no longer reachable for ZeuS-support questions..."

Well if you will use closed-source software, this is one of the risks you are running.

Presumably he wasn't keen on Escrow agreements either?

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