[Ag0stin0]

Ten years ago, he was one of the most wanted malicious hackers by the FBI. Accused of being behind a series of ransomware attacks in France in 2018, from his American cell, 35-year-old Algerian Hamza Bendelladj was acquitted on Thursday evening by the Paris court on procedural grounds, following a tumultuous seven-hour hearing: an error in the name of a hacking tool! Wearing a khaki green shirt and a small white undershirt (prisoner's uniform), a pair of regulation large black glasses on his nose, short-cropped hair, and a neatly trimmed beard, Hamza Bendelladj appeared via video conference from Safford Prison in Arizona, southwestern United States, on Thursday, August 31, 2023. [You could follow this trial minute by minute on X, my former Twitter account. He appeared in a small room that served as a makeshift storage space, filled with parcels and boxes. Spartan ambiance. Throughout the trial, the hacker was accompanied by a guard. Known under the pseudonym "BX1," he had been sentenced to fifteen years in prison in 2013 in the "SpyEye" computer virus case. Appearing on the courtroom screen a little after 3 p.m., as the connection with the USA experienced some initial glitches, he was ultimately acquitted seven hours later. https://www.zataz.com/lhistoire-incroyab...e-malware/

[CorpTax]

That's not the Spyeye author is it? Zues and Spyeye used to battle it out for best malware kit back then but Zues ultimately always had the upperhand in terms of functionality. If this guy is the dev of Spyeye "allegedly" it's pretty crazy to think he just now got cleared of charges. The guy that made and maintained Zues is still buying new tigers and sailing the black sea.