Title: East Europeans ransack NASA, U.S. computers with bank password-stealing virus;

U.S. officials disclosed charges against three foreign cyber thieves accused of stealing banking information from computers across Europe and the United States, including at NASA. “The defendants used a malicious computer code or malware dubbed the ‘Gozi Virus’ to hack into bank accounts and steal millions of dollars.” The scam unfolded between 2005 and March 2012. More 160 of the infected computers belonged to NASA. One of the hackers rented robbers IP addresses and servers that were undetectable to authorities to spread the virus. Another conspirator hired an unnamed computer programmer to write the virus’ source code so that he could rent the virus out to other criminals. The third one created “web injects,” coding that alters how banking websites appear on computers, prompting victims into unwittingly revealing more personal information, such as social security numbers.