Two people have been arrested in Manchester, in England's north, after they came under suspicion of helping to spread some of the most aggressive viruses on the Internet. The couple were arrested at the beginning of this month.
The pair have actively helped spread the trojan computer programmes Zbot and ZeuS, known as the "most notorious pieces of malware of recent times." It infected and disabled thousands of computers across the globe.
The virus steals personal information from an infected user and feeds it back to the hackers, with police stating that, "the potential financial gains to the culprits and losses to individuals and institutions are very substantial."
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