Mastermind Behind Gozi Bank Malware Charged Along With Two Others

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/mastermind-behind-gozi-charged/

BY KIM ZETTER
Threat Level
Wired.com
01.23.13

The mastermind who designed and distributed the Gozi malware — infecting more 
than a million computers worldwide in order to steal banking and other 
credentials from tens of thousands of victims — has been charged in New York 
along with two co-conspirators, according to documents unsealed Wednesday.

Nikita Vladimirovich Kuzmin, 25, was charged along with Deniss Calovskis, 27, 
and Mihai Ionut Paunescu, 28. The three defendants from Eastern Europe have 
been charged on various counts involving bank and wire fraud, access device 
fraud and computer intrusion, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office for the 
Southern District of New York.

Kuzmin, a Russian national who was arrested in the U.S. in Nov. 2010, has 
already pleaded guilty and spent the last two years cooperating with 
authorities in their investigation. Calovskis, a Latvian national, was arrested 
in Latvia last November. Paunescu, a Romanian, was arrested in that country 
last December.

Authorities say the virus infected at least 40,000 computers in the U.S., 
including more than 160 computers belonging to NASA, and cost victims tens of 
millions of dollars in losses.

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