Who Is The 'Happy Hacker'?

But all the 24-year-old Algerian could do at the arraignment and the press conference that followed was smile.

If you’d made off with $100 million, you’d smile too.

Bendelladj is allegedly the mastermind behind Zeus malware, one of the most successful and destructive bits of malicious code in history. The malware captured users’ banking information, allowing hackers to use automatic transfers to take money from their accounts.

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