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Latvian Woman Charged for Role In Crafting Trickbot Malware

Latvian Alla Witte was charged in federal court in Cleveland with 19 counts of a 47-count indictment. The indictment accuses her of participating in a criminal organization that used the Trickbot malware in cyberattacks. The group was located in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Suriname. Witte faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison for conspiracy to commit computer fraud and aggravated identity theft; 30 years for each substantive bank fraud count; two-year mandatory sentence for each aggravated ID theft count, which must be served consecutively.”]

Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/latvian-woman-charged-for-role-in-crafting-trickbot-malware

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