It's not difficult to make crimeware, I'm sure anybody here could wreak havoc on the financial system if they turned to the darkside. You start hanging around xakepy/antichat russian hacker forums and make your own booters and other script kiddy tools.. soon you have money and can buy or vouch your way into private crimeforums like infraud and gain access to the invite only base where they dump POS intel like reverse engineering tools and manuals.
Russians can get away with this because their gov doesn't care about US fraud, also no extradition treaty. Sadly this kid can never travel anywhere ever again unless it's directly to Brazil or another country with no US extradition treaty because they will get him even if it takes 5+years from now they will watch waiting for him to make a mistake and update VKontakte (russian FB) on his Turkey vacation plans.
Russians can get away with this because their gov doesn't care about US fraud, also no extradition treaty. Sadly this kid can never travel anywhere ever again unless it's directly to Brazil or another country with no US extradition treaty because they will get him even if it takes 5+years from now they will watch waiting for him to make a mistake and update VKontakte (russian FB) on his Turkey vacation plans.