US and British law enforcement officials announced charges Thursday against two Russian nationals they think are responsible for separate global hacking schemes. Some of the largest pieces of malware ever seen were deployed to swipe tens of millions of dollars from the bank accounts of unsuspecting victims.
Officials identified those charged as Maksim Yakubets of Moscow and Igor Turashev of Yoshkar-Ola, Russia. They said that a $5 million reward is being offered for information that leads to Yakubets’s capture and that it’s the largest such money offering yet for a cyber criminal.
The Russian ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, called the accusation “groundless.”
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