Alla Vitte, arrested in the United States and one of the suspects linked to the creation of the notorious Trickbot malware, turned out to be a native of Russia.<\/p>\n
According to Bloomberg<\/a>, Vitte was born in Rostov-on-Don, earned a degree in applied mathematics from the University of Latvia, and lived in the Netherlands. After marriage, she moved to Suriname in South America.<\/p>\n Around 2013, Vitte began professionally developing websites. Later she started creating malware.<\/p>\n Vitte was arrested on February 6 and recently appeared in court. In a U.S. Department of Justice notice she is listed as a Latvian citizen.<\/p>\n The woman was charged on 19 counts. Vitte became the first of the alleged Trickbot operators to be arrested.<\/p>\n According to investigators, the Trickbot group operated in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Suriname. Its activities targeted companies, organisations and private individuals worldwide.<\/p>\n \u201cVitte and her accomplices are accused of infecting tens of millions of computers worldwide to steal financial information and move millions of dollars through compromised systems,\u201d the FBI said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The Trickbot malware has been one of the most popular trojans among criminals. It is also used<\/a> to infiltrate systems and further theft of data, covert mining and deployment of ransomware.<\/p>\n In 2020, an international group of specialists carried out an operation<\/a> to neutralize Trickbot.<\/p>\n\n