Last of the Gozi 3 gets 36 months for malware ops scheme • The Register

The last of the three men said to be responsible for infecting Windows computers with the banking trojan Gozi has been sentenced to three years.

Mihai Ionut Paunescu, 37, was said to have supplied the bulletproof hosting that is so vital for the efficient running of malware ops, allowing his co-conspirators to distribute the Gozi malware that stole confidential financial information from millions of computers, among them some Windows boxes running at NASA.

The Romanian national, whom Feds say was also known as “Virus,” was sentenced [PDF] to three years in prison on Monday. He was extradited last year in Colombia, where he had apparently been living after being released on bail following an arrest in Romania in 2012.