America has revealed more details about the attack by a band of hackers who implanted viruses on hundreds of thousands of computers around the world, seized customers’ bank information and stole more than 100 million dollars (€73m) from businesses and consumers.

A fugitive suspected of shooting dead a New York state trooper and wounding two others while on the run for more than five months surrendered to police who had cornered him in a field just over the Pennsylvania border early today.