Arrested "Happy Hacker" is the ZeuS Botnet Mastermind.

Last week, Happy Hacker arrested in Thailand on charges of stealing millions from online bank accounts. According to new reports same hacker alleged as ZeuS Mastermind and used to have the profile of a miscreant nicknamed “bx1,” a hacker fingered by Microsoft before as a major operator of botnets powered by the ZeuS banking trojan.

He remained smiling throughout a press conference in which Thai police explained that Thailand will seek to extradite Mr Bendelladj to the US state of Georgia, where a court has issued a warrant for his arrest.

24-year-old Algerian Hacker , Hamza Bendelladj arrested at a Bangkok airport enroute from Malaysia to Egypt. The ZeuS botnet is one of the most notorious in existence, and it’s also one that has earned its masters some pretty massive payouts.

The Email ID's daniel.h.b@universityofsutton.com, and danieldelcore@hotmail.com mentioned by Microsoft in a complaint submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, appear to be linked to the man.

Mr Bendelladj, who graduated in computer sciences in Algeria in 2008, has allegedly hacked private accounts in 217 banks and financial companies worldwide

Anonymous hacks 2 MIT websites in the memory of web activist Aaron Swartz

In the memory of Aaron Swartz, The Hacktivist group Anonymous hacks (defaced) in to two MIT websites and leaves a Message for Aaron Swartz.

The 26-year-old Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide just 2 days back was arrested in July 2011 and accused of stealing 4 million documents from MIT and JSTOR, an archive of scientific journals and academic papers.

JSTOR had dropped the charges after the digital copies of the articles were returned. However the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) did not do the same and decided to continue with charges against him. If convicted He would have faced $4 million in fines and more than 50 years in prison. His trial was set to begin this April. Unfortunately On Friday evening, Swartz was found dead in his apartment.

Anonymous decided to attack only hours after MIT released a statement on Swartz’s death, announcing it would launch an internal investigation on the events that led up to Swartz’ passing.

The group wrote in the message:

“Whether or not the government contributed to his suicide, the government’s 
prosecution of Swartz was a grotesque miscarriage of justice, a distorted 
and perverse shadow of the justice Aaron died fighting for” 

Anonymous also called for a reform of computer crime laws, copyright and intellectual property laws, and a renewal of a commitment to a “free and unfettered internet.

The 2 hacked Websites are:
1) http://cogen.mit.edu/ (Now restored)
2) http://rledev.mit.edu/aaron.html

Aaron Swartz:
 

(November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013)
Aaron Swartz was computer programmer, writer, archivist, political organizer, and Internet activist. He was a co-founder of Reddit.com, helped create RSS and was know as Internet freedom activist. He was also one ff The Earliest Google Bloggers. Swartz also focused on sociology, civic awareness and activism