U.S. Charges 37 Alleged Money Mules
Summary: New York authorities charged more than 60 individuals and arrested 20 in connection with international cyber heists against dozens of U.S. companies, including a $800,000 theft from Plano, Texas-based Hillary Machinery via the ZeuS password-stealing Trojan. The New York-based ring, allegedly led by Russian citizen Artem "Artur" Tsygankov, recruited young Eastern European men and women on J1 student visas, gave them fake passports to open bank accounts, and cleared more than $3 million using hundreds of accounts opened under false identities.
What you should know: Seventeen of those charged remain at large, and the victim company's own bank sued it preemptively over the theft - a reminder that businesses, unlike consumers, carry the liability when online banking credentials are stolen.
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