Alla Witte, a Latvian woman who was a member of the notorious TrickBot cyber gang, has pleaded guilty in federal court in Cleveland to conspiracy to commit computer fraud. She has been sentenced to two years and eight months in prison, local media reported.
Witte (aka Max) became the first person in the United States to be convicted and sentenced for being part of one of the world’s most prolific hacker groups that deployed the Trickbot malware, which infected millions of victim computers worldwide.
Alla Witte was arrested and charged in the US in 2021. According to authorities, she worked with the Trickbot gang to develop a set of tools used to target businesses and individuals all over the world for theft and ransom.
Witte wrote code related to the control, deployment, and payments of ransomware through a Bitcoin address controlled by the Trickbot group. She also provided code to the Trickbot Group that monitored and tracked authorized users of the malware and developed tools and protocols to store stolen login credentials.