The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced today that a Latvian national was charged for her alleged role as a malware developer in the Trickbot transnational cybercrime organization.
Alla Witte (aka Max) was charged with 19 counts of a 47-count indictment after being arrested on February 6 in Miami, Florida.
As a Trickbot malware developer, Witte wrote the code used by the malware to control, deploy, and manage payments of ransomware, the DOJ said in a press release published today.
Witte also purportedly provided the Trickbot Group with the code needed to monitor and track authorized malware users and developed the tools and protocols required to store login credentials stolen from victims' networks.
The case was investigated by the FBI's Cleveland Office and DOJ's Ransomware and Digital Extortion Task Force, created to battle the increasing number of ransomware and digital extortion attacks.
"Witte and her associates are accused of infecting tens of millions of computers worldwide, in an effort to steal financial information to ultimately siphon off millions of dollars through compromised computer systems," FBI special agent Eric B. Smith said.
The Trickbot malware
Trickbot is a malware strain first spotted in October 2016 as a modular banking trojan that has been continuously upgraded with new modules and features since then.
Even though initially used only for harvesting sensitive data, Trickbot has slowly evolved into a highl ..
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