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Cybercrime Overlord Faces 40 Years: The Fall of Zeus Mastermind & IcedID Chief
From his cyber-throne, a Ukrainian malware maestro faces a 40-year symphony in the clink, finally caught after a tune of illicit digital escapades. Keep your software updated, folks—cybercrime doesn’t pay, at least not outside of Bitcoins.
Well, well, well, if it isn’t Mr. Cybercrime Kingpin himself swapping his malware crown for a possible 40-year stint in the digital dungeon! Vyacheslav “Tank” Penchukov has finally hit the end of the cybercrime runway. After a decade of playing hide-and-seek with the feds, our banking botnet maestro took a plea deal that could see him becoming besties with prison walls for a good portion of his life. It’s a Hollywood-worthy tale of digital derring-do gone wrong, with a side of justice served colder than a server room.
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