Cron has fallen

A black police vehicle, UAZ Patriot, is accelerating, chasing a cherry Renault Logan and forcing it to the roadside. The taxi driver in the Logan seems agitated, frightened even, accelerates quickly while shifting into higher gears. It has gotten dark; both cars speed close to the side of the road sweeping bushes. “Be ready to run,” one of the officers warns his colleagues. “He’s going to brake and flee over the fence.” When the Logan finally stops, the officers act faster: with the entry team jumping out, pulling the passenger from the back seat and laying him face down in the snow.

This taxi passenger is a member of Cron, a hacker group that stole money from bank accounts of Android smartphone users. The hackers infected 3,500 mo…