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The Gozi Trojan first appeared in 2007 and since then had infected Microsoft Windows computers in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Finland, Poland, Turkey and the U.S. Gozi often avoids detection by being disguised as a harmless PDF document. Since 2009, Kuzmin had been selling the source code for the Trojan to other cyber criminals, some of whom actually took the time to refine it.
One of Gozi’s variants is capable of changing a bank’s online welcome page on a compromised machine. The Trojan tricks the user in to disclosing personal information such as mother’s maiden name, social security number, driver’s licence and PIN number.
