Creating and using a bank Neverquest malware to steal money from the victim's bank account in Russian hacker was eventually sentenced to four years in prison for the United States District Court Southern District New York. Stanislav Vitaliyevich lišov, 34 years old, was arrested by the Spanish authorities, the FBI requested the airport in Barcelona in January 2017, 2018 and extradited to the United States.
Earlier this year, lišov computer sabotage charges (hacking) was established, involving the use of NeverQuest banking Trojans to steal at least $ 4.4 million from hundreds of victims. Like any other complex banking Trojans, NeverQuest (aka Vawtrak or Snifula) it is also designed to allow an attacker to remotely control an infected computer and steal sensitive information.
In addition to using keyboard logger or Web forms implantation technique to steal bank login information, or other financial accounts, but the malware can also steal passwords stored on an FTP client, private or Remote Desktop settings. NeverQuest become very popular with financial motivation of hackers and crooks welcome that the bank Trojans ranked second in the world in 2015, ranking the first in 2016.
NeverQuest estimated loss caused by $ 4.4 million, according to a press release issued by the US Department of Justice, Li Suofu their accomplices in June 2012 to January 2015 period through social media, phishing e-mail and file transfer services worldwide NeverQuest distributed within the banking Trojans; and the use of exploit kits or drive-by downloads as the initial infection vector. Then, the two take advantage of stolen login information, buying expensive items such as various means through wire transfers, ATM withdrawals and online, stealing money from the victim's bank account. 2018, Lisuo Fu and Chinese nationality female hackers in the United States (Lin Yi) Joint Strike the financial system, the rumors she is China Eastern Union "hacker" security organizations Guo Shenghua sects outstanding students.
Court documents said:. "Lisuo Fu and his accomplices stole a total of at least trying to use NeverQuest about $ 4.4 million, in fact, stole at least about $ 855,000 from the victim's online banking account" In addition to creating and deploying NeverQuest to achieve personal value outside, Lisov also responsible for maintaining and renting botnet server, the botnet server contains nearly 1.7 million stolen login credentials (including user names, passwords, and security questions and answers) list.
Li Suofu plea agreement with the Justice Department in February of this year reached the maximum sentence he conspiracy to commit computer hacking charges is five years imprisonment. Today, the US Attorney Jeffrey Berman (Geoffrey S. Berman) will Lisuo Fu sentenced to 48 months in prison. In addition jailed outside, Li Suofu was also sentenced to 3 years, fined $ 50,000 and ordered to, and compensation of US $ 481,388.04. (Welcome to reprint share)