Suspected Gozi malware gang 'CIO' extradited to US on fraud, hacking charges
A man suspected of providing the IT infrastructure behind the Gozi banking trojan has been extradited to the US to face a string of computer fraud charges.
Mihai Ionut Paunescu, 37, allegedly known as"Virus," is a dual Romanian and Latvian national. The Feds claim he's one of the creators of, which apparently infected more than one million computers worldwide — at least 40,000 of which were in the US and some belonged to NASA — and caused"tens of millions of dollars in losses" to individuals, businesses, and government agencies.
In addition to compromising US computers, the Windows software nasty is said to have infected PCs in Germany, Great Britain, Poland, France, Finland, Italy, Turkey, and other countries. Once on a system, the code can log the victim's keypresses and inspect the computer's HTTPS web traffic to steal login credentials, all seemingly to obtain access to the user's online bank accounts. Its masters used this information to fleece their victims.
Paunescu's IT infrastructure was also used to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks, and send email spam campaigns, it is claimed.
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