They were really the godfather, so to speak.
They ran their operations out of the back of an Italian restaurant in Moscow,
in the back room, just like you would see Tony Soprano do.
A Russian cyber hacking group accused by the FBI of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars,
emptying bank accounts, and upending lives.
We got a call from the bank and said, are you aware that there's no funds in this account?
What?
Excuse me?
How did that happen?
A new generation of criminal hackers.
The blueprint for modern cyber crime.
The kinds of criminal schemes so audacious and sophisticated that they would be difficult to imagine
if they were not real.
The rewards are limitless.
I think a week is probably looking hundreds of thousands of dollars per week.
It was becoming the largest cyber criminal case in the FBI.
And at the top of this criminal food chain is a cyber crime gang with a fitting name, Evil Core.
The Evil Core group, Evil Core.
Evil Core are accused of reaping the rewards of their crimes without remorse,
living life in the fast lane, leading lavish designer lifestyles in the Russian capital.