Swedish man accused of being involved in the creation of the malicious software used to infect over half a million systems in more than dozens of countries. Alex Yucel, 24, who is the co-author of the Blackshades Remote Access Trojan (RAT) has pleaded not guilty in New York on Thursday to computer hacking charges brought against him. He was arrested in November 2013 in Moldova, as part of an International crackdown on the malicious BlackShades RAT and during the same time the source code of the tool was leaked on the Internet.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2014/05/alleged-blackshades-malware-co-author.html