The the States State Department in addition to the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced Tuesday a $3 Million vantage for the data leading to the straight arrest or conviction of Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, i of the most wanted hacking suspects defendant of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars alongside his malware.
This is the highest bounty U.S.A. regime accept always offered inwards whatever cyber representative inwards its history. The 30-year-old Russian homo who, according to bureau, is an alleged leader of a cyber criminal grouping who developed the GameOver Zeus botnet.
STOLE MORE THAN $100 MILLION
Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, too known nether the aliases "lucky12345," "Slavik," in addition to "Pollingsoon," was the mastermind behind the GameOver Zeus botnet, which was allegedly used yesteryear cybercriminals to infect to a greater extent than than 1 Million computers in addition to resulted inwards to a greater extent than than $100 Million inwards losses since 2011.
GameOver Zeus makes fraudulent transactions from online banking concern accounts in i lawsuit installed inwards a target organisation alongside the capability to comport Distributed Denial of Service, or DDoS, ready on using a botnet, which involves multiple computers flooding the fiscal institution’s server alongside traffic inwards an endeavour to deny legitimate users access to the site.
SAME MASTERMIND BEHIND CRYPTOLOCKER
Not only GameOver Zeus botnet, the alleged suspect is too defendant of masterminding the CryptoLocker Ransomware, which is designed to extort coin from figurer users yesteryear belongings figurer files hostage until the figurer user pays a ransom fee to instruct them back.
CryptoLocker encrypts victims' difficult drives alongside rigid AES-256-bit encryption earlier it demands money. The ransomware was widely distributed on the Gameover ZeuS botnet and, equally a result, has infected hundreds in addition to thousands of computers.
Gameover ZeuS botnet was disrupted yesteryear the feds final yr but remains operational. "Although nosotros were able to significantly disrupt the Gameover ZeuS in addition to Cryptolocker criminal enterprise, nosotros accept non yet brought Bogachev himself to justice," Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell said inwards a statement.
MOST WANTED CRIMINAL
Joseph Demarest Jr., assistant manager of the FBI's cyber division, described Bogachev equally both "one of the world's worst'' in addition to "brilliant at what he did.'' The regime charged Bogachev alongside conspiracy, figurer hacking, wire fraud, banking concern fraud in addition to coin laundering nether a 14-count indictment final year.
"We are turning to the footing in i lawsuit again for assistance inwards locating Bogachev," said FBI assistant manager Joseph Demarest. "While he is known to reside inwards Russia, he may travel. With this $3 1000000 vantage incentive, someone, somewhere may run into him in addition to allow the regime know his whereabouts."
CALL FBI TO BE REWARDED IN $3 MILLION
In appearance, Bogachev is 5'9" tall, weighs around 180lbs, alongside chocolate-brown eyes in addition to chocolate-brown hair. Last fourth dimension he was seen inwards the Russian seaside resort of Anapa. He is believed to last yet inwards Russia, although "he may travel," according to authorities.
Bogachev is on the FBI’s Most Wanted cyber list. Anyone spotting him in addition to wishing to last rewarded yesteryear the Federal Bureau of Investigation tin telephone telephone the feds at 1-800-225-5324, or tin practice the same online yesteryear visiting tips.fbi.gov.
