Prosecutors: Cybercriminals infected computers, stole data
Photo credit: AP | A European official at the Cybercrime Center at Europol headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands. (Jan. 11, 2013)
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Three Eastern European cybercriminals -- one nicknamed "Virus" -- were charged in federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday with infecting a million computers, including some belonging to NASA, and snatching identity data that allowed them to steal as much as $50 million through online banking sites.
Authorities said one of the three men -- Nikita Kuzmin, 25, a Russian who created a malicious...
