FBI Issues $3 million Bounty for Russian Hacker
A $3 million reward for information on the FBI's most wanted cyber criminal was issued in Washington yesterday.
31-year-old Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev is alleged to have coordinated the GameOver ZeuS botnet, which installed malware onto victims' computers and collected personal information including PIN numbers and bank account details. The programme secretly logged keystrokes on passwords and launched malicious websites where victims entered sensitive information.
The malware is alleged to have infected one million computers, and resulted in the theft of more than $100 million from businesses and consumers in the U.S. and worldwide.
