Two-Year Chase: FBI Relaunches Search for Cybercriminals

The usage of sophisticated e-mail schemes by hackers to hack into the systems of law firms and public relations companies is on the rise, with hacker groups targeting law firms and public relations companies in an attempt to steal sensitive information often related to large corporations operating overseas. 

There has been an increase in attempts by cybercriminals to hack into law firms’ computers as of late. According to a recent FBI advisory, the trend began as much as two years ago but has grown dramatically in recent months. 

After the FBI and its European allies announced they had taken down the multimillion-dollar cybercrime group’s computer systems more than two years ago, the agency has now intensified its search for members of the group, according to newly released court documents reviewed by CNN and found to have stolen identities. 

Hacking tools associated with the group, whose operations have previously been linked to eastern Ukraine, have stalked the internet for and hacked the computers of over 100 million users since the year 2000, costing thousands of victims millions of dollars, and resulting in a disruption attack on the school in the US last year. 

There is a persistent and increasingly sophisticated threat of malicious cyber campaigns attacking America’s public and private sectors, a threat tha

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