FBI Announces ‘Most Wanted Cyber-Criminals’ Updated List

FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) recently included 5 more suspected cyber-criminals into a 'list of most wanted men' it compiled, including crooks associated with powerful malware, one car sales fraud and identity theft, published irishmirror.ie dated July 2, 2015.

The agency announced a handsome prize-money for seizing Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev whose other names are 'Slavik,' 'Pollingsoon' and 'Lucky12345.' The person, whom nobody could find since 6-years, if found will now get rewarded with a huge $3m (1.92m pounds), thus far the highest that FBI declared.

Bogachev a Russian national is thought as being responsible for the refined ZeuS malicious program that attacks PCs to filch bank log-in credentials as well as other personal information.

According to FBI, while Bogachev played the administrator's role, more individuals working in the campaign, connived for distributing phishing and spam mails carrying web-links to hijacked sites.

Another entity listed is the 'Jabberzeus Subjects.' It's certain hackers' collective based inside Ukraine and Russia and most wanted ever since they utilized the Zeus malware.

On No.2 in the list of cyber-criminals is Nicolae Popescu a Romanian hacker who if seized will enable a million dollar reward. His crime includes trafficking fake services and faking passports.

While carrying out his offence, starting 2012, Popescu apparently participated within an advanced online fraud scheme whose activities spread in Europe and Romania. And though FBI doesn't know where he's exactly hiding, the agency believes he can be found within some place of Europe.

Moreover, on No.3 is Alexsey Belan with an insignificant $100,000 reward because he raided 3 American organizations as also tried selling the companies' innumerable usernames/passwords on the parallel economy.

Also, Peteris Sahurovs, on No.4 is the person behind wire-fraud, conniving towards carrying out wire-fraud as well as illegitimate admission into a protected PC following a global cyber-crime operation which was aided with a PC-virus which associated with trading fake security software on the Internet to embezzle Internauts of over $2m. The prize money announced for him is $50,000.

Finally on No.5 is Carlos Enrique Perez-Melara who's still wanted because he created "Lover Spy" a spyware also named "Email PI," in 2003. Reward: $50,000.

» SPAMfighter News - 7/21/2015