US State Department and FBI announced Tuesday that offers three million dollars in exchange for information leading to the arrest and conviction of hacker Russian Evgeny Bogacev largest reward ever offered by the United States in a cyber event.
US Federal Police is looking for Bogacev who is accused in the United States by committing attacks through the network GameOver Zeus, which had stolen over 100 million dollars from bank accounts online.
The Russian was accused by federal autrităţile Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) conspiracy, cyber attack, online fraud, bank fraud and money laundering in connection with alleged role as manager of GameOver Zeus. He is accused of plotting bank fraud in Omaha (Nebraska) in touch with his alleged involvement in a previous version of the Zeus malware, known as '' Jabber Zeus ".
Bugacev is "known amateur rides and craft could travel on his ship in the Black Sea," said FBI poster with the words "Search".
According to CBS, FBI presented botnet in 2014 as "a highly sophisticated type of malware designed specifically to steal banking information and other kind of computers it infects."
US Federal Bureau of Investigation indicates that the virus is spread mainly through unsolicited emails or phishing messages.
According to officials from the Bureau Bogacev they are still in Russia.
FBI Division Chief for serious cyber inffracţiuni Joseph Demarest said the agency is aware of the existence of approximately 60 groups that threaten US cybersecurity. He declined to say which countries are behind these groups.
Internal Security Agency Russian FSB recently expressed interest to cooperate with US authorities in investigating cybercrime, according to Demarest, but he did not link this cooperation offer Bugacev's case.
Instead, China has not expressed any interest in cooperation in this field with the United States, the FBI said. United States indicted in November five officers of the Chinese army, whom they accused of committing cyber attacks on US nuclear power system and metallurgical industries and wind.
Demarest also said that the FBI learned, one month after Sony Pictures reported the first large-scale cyber attacks that behind them is North Korea. He said that investigators found no evidence to support the charge that hackers Sony Pictures would have been helped by people inside. FBI repertoire "100 (cyber attacks) major" in 2014, the official said, adding that he found evidence of collaboration within the targets in "less than a handful" of these cases.
Source: Mediafax
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