Massive check-fraud botnet operation tied to Russia Check fraud is an old-fashioned kind of crime, but a criminal ring with ties to Russia is using modern cybercrime techniques, including botnets, online databases of financial information and check imaging archives, to run a highly automated, multi-million-dollar counterfeit-check operation. The crime ring, dubbed “BigBoss” after the name found on a directory server used as part of the massive check-fraud operation, was discovered by researchers from SecureWorks last April