US offers $3 million reward for capture of GameOver ZeuS botnet admin
The Justice Department announced Tuesday a reward of up to $3 million leading to the arrest and/or conviction of the alleged leader of "a tightly knit gang of cybercriminals" who developed the Gameover ZeuS botnet.
Gameover ZeuS siphons passwords to online banking sites from Microsoft Windows computers.
The authorities are offering the reward for Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, accused of various charges in connection to the botnet. The authorities said the botnet infected more than 1 million computers and resulted in $100 million in losses. "Although we were able to significantly disrupt the Gameover ZeuS and Cryptolocker criminal enterprise, we have not yet brought Bogachev himself to justice," Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell said.
