Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
A Latvian hacker pleaded guilty in New York to helping develop a virus that infected more than a million computers worldwide, tricking online banking customers into revealing passwords and other security information. Deniss Calovskis, 30, faces as long as two years in prison under a plea deal reached with U.S. prosecutors after being extradited from Latvia in 2013. He couldve been sentenced to as long as 10 years. Calovskis, using a Russian-speaking interpreter, told a U.S. magistrate judge in Manhattan Friday that he wrote a little part of the virus code, which became known as the Gozi virus. It infected about 17,000 computers in the U.S., prosecutors said. “I knew what I was doing was against the law,” said Calovskis, wearing eyeglasses and blue prison garb. Calovskis spent 10 months in a Latvian jail before being sent to New York, though his lawyer said its unclear whether that will affect his sentence in the U.S. Calovskis pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for helping build Gozi, which led to the theft of millions of dollars. If hed gone to trial, he wouldve faced as long as 67 years behind bars on all the charges […]
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