The case was nicknamed the Quality Trophy, a reference to a conference organized by a state construction agency in 2004 at which companies and institutions donated money that was used by Nastase to fund his campaign, prosecutors said.
Exploits against information systems are particularly attractive to organized crime and state actors because of the richness of the target environment, the ease of exploitation, low cost of attack development, reasonably strong anonymity and difficulties in attribution, and the practical shortfalls of international legal frameworks and law enforcement regimes.