IcedID henchman gets nine years in clanger for abusing malware to drain bank accounts A Ukrainian malware kingpin who evaded law enforcement for a decade will face nine years in prison for his role in the IcedID malware operation. Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov pleaded guilty to two charges relating to two separate indictments in two different cases in a plea agreement [PDF] in February. He was already …
Possibly a portmanteau of clink (UK) and slammer (US).
1. Bad man steals lots of many-other peoples' money.
2. Police catch bad man.
3. Bad man found guilty in U.S court, goes to jail.
4. Bad man fined millions of dollars by U S. government, which the bad man pays from the money he stole.
5. U.S. government profits!
"That stone just keeps on rolling, bringing me some real bad news.
The takers get the honey, the givers sing the blues." --Robin Trower
Presumably most of the money concerned was ransoms paid by corporates. They don't deserve to get a penny back since it was their poor ITSec that got them into trouble, and then they compounded that by funding the criminals ensuring that others would be targeted. If they aren't going to make paying ransoms illegal, government should at least put a 500% tax on ransoms paid by corporations.
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