Google has sued hackers believed to be part of a cybercrime gang that has stolen user information from around the world.
A complaint names two Russians and 15 unknown individuals said to be behind Glupteba, a malicious “botnet” that has infected over a million computers.
Criminals use these systems of compromised devices to hack private data.
It is the first case Google has launched against a botnet.
According to a lawsuit filed in New York and unsealed on Tuesday, the botnet built by Dmitry Starovikov, Alexander Filippov and their associates has become a “modern technological and borderless incarnation of organised crime”.
Kinda hard to pick out the bad guys here.
