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Russian Hacker Behind NeverQuest Banking Malware Gets 4 Years in U.S. Prison

Russian hacker who created and used banking malware to steal money from victims’ bank accounts has finally been sentenced to 4 years in prison by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. NeverQuest, aka Vawtrak or Snifula, was designed to let attackers remotely control infected computers and steal a wide range of sensitive information. The malware was also capable of stealing passwords stored in FTP clients, private keys, or stored within remote-desktop settings. The NeverQuest banking trojan was ranked the number two global financial malware in 2015 and the number one in 2016.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2019/11/lisov-neverquest-russian-hacker.html

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