Newswise — Gary Warner, Director of Research in Computer Forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, one of the foremost experts on cyber crime and computer forensics who consults regularly with the FBI, is available to comment or to provide background information on the breaking story about arrest of 92 people in conjunction with the financial and cyber crimes related to the Zeus botnet.

Today the FBI announced the apprehension of the ring leaders of this group in Ukraine, announcing that they had stolen more than $70 million and had attempted to transfer more than $220 million.

Zeus malware infects people by sending a misleading link in a spam email message.

UAB's Spam Data Mine has tracked many "zeus infection" emails over the past two years. Students in the program regularly work with law enforcement to solve cyber crimes.

In 2009 Warner was named Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional in Enterprise Security. He has written extensively about Zeus in his blog Cybercrime & Doing Time at http://garwarner.blogspot.com

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