Hacker pleads guilty in Gozi virus case
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 could have been sentenced to as long as 10 years.
Calovskis, using a Russian-speaking interpreter, told a U.S. magistrate judge in Manhattan on 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 United States, prosecutors said.
--washingtonpost
