Bogdan Nicolescu and Radu Miclaus, 37, were sentenced to 20 years and 18 years in prison on Friday. They were each convicted in April on 21 charges, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit service marks. The pair developed malware and distributed it through malicious emails to victims, purporting to be from companies like Western Union, Norton AntiVirus and the IRS. When recipients clicked on an attached file, malware was installed onto their systems. It harvested personal data, credit-card information, user names and passwords, disabled victims malware protection tools, and blocked their access to websites associated with law enforcement.
Source: https://threatpost.com/romanian-duo-jailtime-malware/150942/