FBI Busted Networ of Cyber Fraud Infiltrated in 12 Countries

An international investigation led by the FBI has allowed dismantle a network of cyber fraud in 12 countries who had stolen more than $ 100 million. U.S. officials announced Monday that it is “the most sophisticated system remotely ¨ hackers infiltration of the FBI has identified and dismantled a Russian citizen as the leader of the plot.

Following this transaction, Evgeniy Bogachev, 30, was added to the list of the FBI ‘s most wanted cybercriminals. Since Russia does not extradite to other countries to their citizens accused, one may never reach Bogachev be stopped. And with the current tensions between Washington and Moscow, following the Ukrainian crisis, it seems highly unlikely any conciliatory gesture from Russia. Aware of these limitations, the announcement of his identity answered Washington ‘s new strategy to openly reveal their most wanted hacker, as it did two weeks ago accusing five Chinese military industrial cyber espionage.

The network called Gameover Zeus managed to infect half a million to a million computers around the world through two programs that steal banking credentials later ” empty accounts ” of their users, then blackmail their owners to pay a deposit in exchange for the return of their stolen data.

The system was of such sophistication that allowed hackers to ” infiltrate, spy, and even control ” infected computers ” from anywhere ” as the FBI investigation. ” Implemented type cybercrimes you would not believe if you saw a science fiction movie,” said Deputy Attorney General Leslie Caldwell, in a press conference at the headquarters of the Department of Justice in Washington.

The authorities took over the weekend of the terminals of these two programs, which began to steal confidential data in September 2011. It’s Not about a brand new computer virus. It originated on another network called Zeus Trojan that erupted in 2006 with a similar scope and number of hosts attacked generated economic losses.

For the facts announced Monday and earlier, Bogachev, which according to the latest U.S. intelligence believed to live in a city in the Russian Black Sea – facing various court charges in state courts of Pennsylvania and Nebraska for crimes conspiracy, bank fraud and hacking, among others.

The investigations, led by the United States, teams from Australia, Holland, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Canada, Ukraine and the United Kingdom, regardless of Europol, the European Police Office. They also collaborated with U.S. computer giant inquiries as Microsoft and Dell.

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