FBI Offering $4.3 Million For Help Finding Cyber Most-Wanted

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Big prize still going to whomever can help find Gameover ZeuS mastermind.

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The FBI's updated Cyber Most Wanted List now includes 15 men (no women). The Bureau is still not offering monetary rewards for information leading to the arrests of five members of the People's Republic of China's People's Liberation Army who remain on the list. However, they are offering bounties for most others, which add up to over $4.3 million.

Most of that -- $3 million alone -- is devoted solely to catching Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, the mastermind behind the Gameover ZeuS botnet. The most-wanted list also includes a catch-all "Jabberzeus Subjects," whose identities are not yet known; no bounty is listed.

The FBI is also offering a hearty $1 million for information on Romanian citizen Nicolae Popescu, for his participation in an Internet fraud scheme. He's charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering, passport fraud, and trafficking in counterfeit service marks.

Also on the list:

Alexsey Belan, wanted for stealing and selling the user data and encrypted passwords of millions of accounts from three major US-based e-commerce firms. He's also been charged with aggravated identity theft and possession of 15 unauthorized access devices. Reward: $100,000.

Viet Quoc Nguyen, charged with computer intrusion and wire fraud conspiracy, after hacking eight e-mail service providers, stealing 1 billion email-addresses and other proprietary information, spamming those accounts, and making commissions on products sold to them. Reward not listed.

Peteris Sahurovs, charged with wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and unauthorized access to a protected computer because of an international cybercrime scheme that "utilized a computer virus that involved the online sale of fraudulent computer security programs that defrauded Internet users of more than $2 million." Reward: $50,000.

Shaileshhumar P. Jain and Bjorn Daniel Sundin are charged with wire fraud, computer fraud, and conspiracy to commit computer fraud because of a scareware scheme "that caused internet users in more than 60 countries to purchase more than one million bogus software products, resulting in consumer loss of more than $100 million." Rewards: $20,000 apiece.

Carlos Enrique Perez-Melara is still wanted for his involvement in manufacturing the "Lover Spy" a.k.a. "Email PI" spyware from 2003. Reward: $50,000.

Noor Aziz Uddin and Farshan Ul Arshad are wanted for their involvement in an international telecom fraud scheme that defrauded individuals, government entities, and corporations out of over $50 million. The criminal organization extended into Pakistan, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Spain, Singapore, Italy, and Malaysia. Reward: $50,000 apiece.


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A lot of those people where on trial in Western District of Pennsylvania. Interesting. Well I'm pretty damn sure none of these people will simply be out having dinner so finding them will require that a lot of people know that they are wanted. Do that and anyone will be caught pretty quickly. Not an easy task.
 
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It is clear that you need to work with new systems of exchange of information between companies involved in computer security, as well as between law enforcement agencies of different countries. Until you start the right collaboration is difficult that you will significantly reduce the amount of computer crimes and especially to catch these cyber-criminals.
 

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Oh! What a Gender Discrimination, so much much money only for men and nothing for women. :oops:
 
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I see two men in uniform, interesting...

Those are PLA uniforms.

Here is a simplistic explanation...

Those indicted (charged) have not been tried in a court of law - just charged.

They have been charged by a federal "Grand Jury" - which after reviewing evidence, hands down an indictment - which is a charge or a group of charges - and authorizes law enforcement to hunt them down.

In the US legal system, any federal prosecutor (US Attorney) can gather evidence and submit it to the Grand Jury. In this case, it just happened to be the US Attorney's office located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

This office is also famous for putting Tommy Chong (Cheech & Chong - probably before your time) behind bars for selling hash pipes and bongs via the internet.

Because of the proximity of Carnegie Mellon University there are a lot of IT experts - developers, educators, policy makers, defense, security, forensics and especially legal-IT experts, etc - in the area. So, because of the access to such experts for developing cases, a lot of the US internet-related prosecutions come out of Pittsburgh, PA (Western District of PA).
 
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Those are PLA uniforms.

Here is a simplistic explanation...

Those indicted (charged) have not been tried in a court of law - just charged.

They have been charged by a federal "Grand Jury" - which after reviewing evidence, hands down an indictment - which is a charge or a group of charges - and authorizes law enforcement to hunt them down.

In the US legal system, any federal prosecutor (US Attorney) can gather evidence and submit it to the Grand Jury. In this case, it just happened to be the US Attorney's office located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

This office is also famous for putting Tommy Chong (Cheech & Chong - probably before your time) behind bars for selling hash pipes and bongs via the internet.

Because of the proximity of Carnegie Mellon University there are a lot of IT experts - developers, educators, policy makers, defense, security, forensics and especially legal-IT experts, etc - in the area. So, because of the access to such experts for developing cases, a lot of the US internet-related prosecutions come out of Pittsburgh, PA (Western District of PA).
Thanks for explanation, I thought the other side of the legality.
 

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