The FBI is Offering $4.2 Million for Five Hackers
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 07/03/2015 09:33 AM
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The FBI is willing to pay $4.2 million to get these hackers.
From left: Evgeniy Bogachev, Nicolae Popescu, Alexsey Belan, Peteris Sahurovs and Shaileshkumar Jain, the FBI's top 5 most wanted hackers. (Mugshots via FBI)
According to FBI statistics, the top five most-wanted cyber criminals, based on the amount of money offered for their capture and prosecution, are responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.
Here's the rap sheet for the FBI's five most-wanted hackers:
1. Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev | Reward: $3 million
Bogachev is the mastermind of ZeuS, a trojan horse that steals bank account numbers, passwords, security questions -- any information that could be used to seize control of a bank account.
2. Nicolae Popescu | Reward: $1 million
Popescu used a "tried and true" method of bilking online consumers, Stangl said. He set up fake auctions for automobiles on sites, such as Cars.com and AutoTrader in 2012, purporting to sell cars that just didn't exist.
3. Alexsey Belan | Reward: $100,000
Belan stole consumer data in 2012 and 2013 from three e-commerce sites in Nevada and California.
4. Peteris Sahurovs | Reward: $50,000
Posing as a fake hotel chain, Sahurovs sold ads laced with malware to news Web sites. When users reached the page where the ad was displayed, the malware locked the computer and encrypted its files, demanding a $50 ransom to regain functionality.
5. Shaileshkumar "Sam" Jain | Reward: $50,000
Jain is the only American citizen on the list. He made $100 million between 2006 and 2008, according to the FBI, by using a flood of pop-up ads to convince users their computers were infected with a virus. Then he sold users bogus software, or "scareware," said Stangl, to get rid of the pop ups.
Source: The Washington Post
From left: Evgeniy Bogachev, Nicolae Popescu, Alexsey Belan, Peteris Sahurovs and Shaileshkumar Jain, the FBI's top 5 most wanted hackers. (Mugshots via FBI)
According to FBI statistics, the top five most-wanted cyber criminals, based on the amount of money offered for their capture and prosecution, are responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.
Here's the rap sheet for the FBI's five most-wanted hackers:
1. Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev | Reward: $3 million
Bogachev is the mastermind of ZeuS, a trojan horse that steals bank account numbers, passwords, security questions -- any information that could be used to seize control of a bank account.
2. Nicolae Popescu | Reward: $1 million
Popescu used a "tried and true" method of bilking online consumers, Stangl said. He set up fake auctions for automobiles on sites, such as Cars.com and AutoTrader in 2012, purporting to sell cars that just didn't exist.
3. Alexsey Belan | Reward: $100,000
Belan stole consumer data in 2012 and 2013 from three e-commerce sites in Nevada and California.
4. Peteris Sahurovs | Reward: $50,000
Posing as a fake hotel chain, Sahurovs sold ads laced with malware to news Web sites. When users reached the page where the ad was displayed, the malware locked the computer and encrypted its files, demanding a $50 ransom to regain functionality.
5. Shaileshkumar "Sam" Jain | Reward: $50,000
Jain is the only American citizen on the list. He made $100 million between 2006 and 2008, according to the FBI, by using a flood of pop-up ads to convince users their computers were infected with a virus. Then he sold users bogus software, or "scareware," said Stangl, to get rid of the pop ups.
Source: The Washington Post
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