The article is somewhat odd in that it implies this is a new thing, or even recent.

At least one of the stories and featured photos (guy with the yellow car) is of a Russian hacker the US picked up in July of 2014.

There's a news story from 2015, but it mentions the guy was picked up from the Maldives a year earlier.

http://www.businessinsider.com/notorious-russian-hacker-kidn...