Account-draining malware masterminds charged but remain in motherland
US prosecutors have slapped a $5m bounty on the heads of two Russian nationals they claim are part of the malware gang behind the banking trojans ZeuS and Dridex.
The crew, nicknamed "Evil Corp" by the Americans in a press conference today, was named and shamed with the help of Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) and GCHQ offshoot the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
"Maksim Yakubets, aged 32, from Moscow, is charged in relation to two separate international computer hacking and bank fraud schemes, spanning from May 2009 to the present," the NCA said in a press release issued this afternoon.
