Three Charged in Connection with ‘Gozi’ Trojan
Summary: Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York charged three men - Russian national Nikita Kuzmin, Latvian resident Deniss Calovskis, and Romanian national Mihai Ionut Paunescu - with creating and distributing the Gozi Trojan, which infected more than one million computers, at least 40,000 of them in the United States. Investigators say Gozi was the delivery vehicle for a subscription fraud service called 76 Service, which supplied buyers with custom Trojans, web injects, and hosting to automate theft from online banking customers.
Bottom line: One malware author allegedly ran a turnkey crime business - custom Trojans, evasion tooling, and even money mule supply - sold to vetted buyers, and it took from a 2010 arrest in California to a 2013 arrest in Romania to charge the three men named.
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