A Roguyan man accused of hacking into the virtual infrastructure of a banking Trojan that stole tens of millions of dollars is still facing trial in the United States after his extradition from South America.
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The federal government took Mihai Ionut Paunescu, also known as Virus, to a federal court in Manhattan a year after the Colombian government detained the fugitive at a Bogota airport. The Romanian government arrested Paunescu in 2012 but released him on bail. A U. S. Grand Jury The U. S. Government issued a three-count indictment opposed him in 2013. If convicted of all charges (conspiracy to commit bank fraud, cable fraud and computer intrusion), the 37-year-old faces up to 60 years in prison.
Paunescu reportedly presented cybercriminals with so-called “bulletproof hosting,” adding a command and server for the Gozi malware that, in the early 2000s, set fire to more than a million computers. Among them were 60 computers belonging to NASA, through which the thieves stole approximately $19,000.
Its supposed business style consists of leasing servers and network connectivity to valid providers and subletting the infrastructure to other cybercriminals. Another malware that Paunescu is accused of facilitating comes with the Zeus and SpyEye Trojans. It would also have allowed its clientele of criminals to execute DDoS attacks through hosting the BlackEnergy bot toolkit.
Paunescu maintained a database to handle his server’s sublease operation that included tags such as “zeus one hundred percent SBL” and “one hundred percent SBL malware,” according to prosecutors.
According to the indictment, the defendant helped consumers evade detection through law enforcement by analyzing lists of suspicious or untrusted IP addresses controlled by the Spamhaus project. In case of coincidence, it says it would move its consumers’ data to another network. and IP address – already a totally new country.
The opposite case of Paunescu has been going on for about a decade. This “demonstrates that we will work with our law enforcement partners at home and prosecute cybercriminals who target Americans, no matter how long it takes,” said U. S. Attorney Damian Williams of the Southern District of New York, where Paunescu is expected to stand trial. . . A trial date has not yet been set, but the case has been assigned to District Judge Lorna G. Schofield.
Two Americans with whom Paunescu allegedly conspired have already done so through the American judicial formula (see: Did the feds deactivate the blitzkrieg over the banks?).
Deniss Čalovskis, alias Miami, a Latvian citizen who got ahead of Gozi by creating online injections, pleaded guilty in 2015 to one count of conspiracy to dedicate a computer intrusion to a single person. He was sentenced to 21 months in prison in January 2016.
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