Gang of Cyber Criminals on the Run in Ukraine and Russia

If you're going to be a computer hacker, separatist-occupied eastern Ukraine is not a bad place to hide your servers

The U.S. Department of Justice charged Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, 30, with conspiracy, computer hacking, wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering in connection with his alleged leadership of a gang of cyber criminals that operated in Russia and Ukraine.

The group allegedly ran the GameOver Zeus malware, letting them control "the most sophisticated botnet the FBI and our allies have ever attempted to disrupt," FBI Executive Assistant Director Robert Anderson Jr said in an statement on Monday. Read more...