Zeus, IcedID malware kingpin faces 40 years in slammer

Connor Jones reports that Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov, a 37-year-old Ukrainian cybercrime kingpin who ran the Zeus and IcedID malware operations, pleaded guilty in the U.S. to charges related to those campaigns; he faces up to 40 years in prison after nearly a decade on the FBI’s Cyber Most Wanted list and is linked to operations that netted millions of dollars.