Russian hacker claims gangster threatened to ‘violate’ his wife

  A Russian hacker claims he helped fraudsters steal nearly £2m from company bank accounts after a gangster threatened to kill him and ‘violate’ his wife. Vugar Mollachiev, 37, helped orchestrate ‘an extensive, sophisticated and well-organised cyber-fraud’ against a number of companies. The gang infiltrated a network of private computers by creating ‘bots’ to infect them with malware. Fraudsters then hacked into bank accounts belonging to a string of firms before getting their hands on £1.8m during the three-year scam…