Six Cyber Skimmers Snagged: Russia Indicts Hackers for Swiping 160K Payment Cards
In a digital heist twist, Russia’s cyber sheriffs have corralled six alleged card skimming cowboys. These web outlaws reportedly rustled up 160,000 credit cards from e-commerce corrals. Yee-haw, but with malware.
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Well, it's about time our friends in Russia started playing cyber-cop instead of cyber-'hide and seek'! Six alleged cyber-swashbucklers walk the plank as Mother Russia finally decides to clean house. They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but it seems like the Russian prosecutor's office is out here proving that you can, in fact, teach a bear to dance—ballet, no less, in a court of law. Let's see if this swan song for the card-skimming sextet is the start of a Russian renaissance in cyber law enforcement, or just a one-hit-wonder to keep the international crowd appeased!