The defendants, three of whom were members of the Russian intelligence services, tried to recruit people for surveillance and murder for hire in the United States and other countries, prosecutors said.
An indictment unsealed on Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York accused five men of being part of a network that planned to assassinate Russian dissidents.
The Justice Department said Jonathan Hunter Kramer, 21, was acting in support of a foreign terrorist group. He was charged after obtaining a semiautomatic rifle and ammunition.
The blog Krebs on Security reported on an identity theft service trying to sell scans of licenses and other documents belonging to people in Canada and the United States.
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