$5 million bounty placed on Russian hackers responsible for Dridex banking malware

Tom Allen
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The FBI and US Department of State have placed a record-breaking bounty on Maksim Yakubets and Igor Turashev

The UK's National Crime Agency, together with the USA's Department of Justice and Department of State, has named two Russian hackers it believes developed and distributed the Dridex banking trojan ...

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