Zachary Shames, 21, pleaded guilty to developing and selling Limitless Logger spyware. He’s due to be sentenced June 16 and faces up to 10 years in prison. Shames’ outing traces, in part, to January 2014, when he’d just started college and decided to “sell the project to my support member” Trend Micro says it passed on details that correctly identified Shames as the creator to the FBI. Another suspect, a 40-year-old Nigerian national referred to as “Mike,” masterminded multiple business email compromise and romance scams, the vendor says.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/blogs/poor-opsec-led-to-spyware-developers-downfall-p-2369