28 Russian old Nikita Kuzmin, developer of Gozi Trojan, has been convicted yesterday to 37 months in prison. In addition to imprisonment, the court του όρισε και ένα πρόστιμο 6.934.979 δολαρίων για τις ζημίες που προκάλεσε με την ανάπτυξη του τραπεζικού κακόβουλου λογισμικού Gozi.
Kuzmin created the Gozi Trojan in 2007 and made it available to underground hacking forums using the nickname "76". The malware was innovative when it was created, as it was the first to offer MaaS (malware-as-a-service).
The Gozi banking trojan makes "Web injects" in modules that utilize various processes in the program browsing of infected computers. So he could overlay legitimate pages with fake ones, and of course he preferred banking portals.
The authorities arrested Kuzmin in the US 2010. The hacker reached a co-operation agreement with the prosecuting authorities and confessed his guilt later to 2011.
In addition to Kuzmin, US authorities are also charging others two others as his associates.
One of them is Deniss Calovskis, a Latvian hacker who created many of Gozi's modules. Authorities arrested Calovskis in November 2012, and after a long and drawn out process versions.
The second suspect who helped Kuzmin is the Romanian, Mihai Ionut Paunescu, who was arrested 2012 in Romania.
