Russian hackers ‘stole £2m in series of cyber attacks’

  Russian hackers stole nearly £2m from company bank accounts after launching a series of sophisticated cyber-attacks, a court heard today (mon). Dagestani Abdurakhman Bazaev, 29, acted as a ‘runner, fill-in or general facilitator’ in an international plot spearheaded by his brother-in-law Vugar Mollachiev, 37, jurors heard. The gang infiltrated a network of private computers by creating ‘bots’ to infect them with malware. Fraudsters then hacked into bank accounts belonging to three companies and got their hands on £1.8m during…