Carberp is a unique case, with all the guys who organized really big botnets and made big profits (millions of US dollars) being arrested.

Aleksandr Matrosov and Eugene Rodionov presented their research into “Smartcard vulnerabilities in modern banking malware” at PHDays’2012.

Group-IB and ESET Russia assisted in the investigation that led to the arrest of 6 people suspected of stealing 125m roubles from bank customers in Russia .

The latest research on the Win32 Carberp gang and the technicalities and evolution of the malware, as presented at CARO 2012.

Group-IB’s joint investigations with the FSB and MVD resulted in the arrest of a gang of eight accused of larceny, creation of malware, and unauthorized access.

Research by Aleksandr Matrosov and Vladimir Kropotov on distribution of a CVE-2011-3544 exploit by FTP.

ESET is seeing a new step of evolution for the Rovnix bootkit family.

‘Tis the season to get ready for the autumn round of security conferences.

In their presentation “Cybercrime in Russia: Trends and issues” at CARO2011 — one of the best presentations of the workshop, in my unbiased opinion ;-) — Robert Lipovsky, Aleksandr Matrosov and Dmitry Volkov mentioned the Win32/Hodprot malware family, which seems to be undergoing something of a resurgence.

… I haven’t recently posted any pointers to our content on SC Magazine’s Cybercrime Corner, and now might be a good time to recap on what Randy and I have been posting there this month (so far…) …