Show 8: The Business Club

Whether you hail from the old school shows like Dragnet, or something more recent like The Saprano’s, theres a reason why those shows did so well and attracted long time loyal audiences – its exciting and daring and a life not known by the everyday person like myself.  The Hollywood picture of organized crime is painted in a colorful brush, one that’s quite different than the true story behind many of history’s timeline of criminal families, bosses and the crews we have read about.  Such as the story behind the organized crime syndicate using the Zeus trojan.

But organized crime of the digital age has a new face a new hustle, one that is moving at breakneck speed and causing record breaking cost to businesses.  In this show, were going to hear about one of those organization, one that has lasted, for over a decade.

“The Business Club” is an organization that ran the highly successful and unprecedented “Gameover ZeuS” network.  Named after the original ZeuS trojan.  It was a highly skilled and organized crew who comprised of a number of key core members and extended faction crews, not unlike any criminal organization of the 20th and 21st century.

Various criminal organization around the world that engage in any number of illegal vices such as arms and arms trafficking, racketeering and money laundering, rely on various skills of their members or extended crews to turn a profit.   The Business Club members were known for various skills that directly contributed to their multi-million dollar enterprise.  Whether that consisted of writing the malware, hackers for distribution or organizing money mules, each played a role in its success.

Lead by a Russian Evigeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, the crew would compromise the computers of various nations around the world for years. Originally developed by Bogachev, the Gameover Zeus network was a highly sophisticated network of botnets and command and control servers.

But undermining the bank accounts of  individuals and corporations wasn’t the only use of this system.  There was another sinister operation at hand, one that might trace back to a political and state sponsored motivation.  Listen to show and get the full story on who was “The Business Club”.

 http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/6214813-74/attorney-criminal-hickton