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FBI: $3M Bounty for ZeuS Trojan Author

Summary: The FBI announced a $3 million bounty for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, a Russian man it believes built and distributed the ZeuS banking Trojan, which has been used to steal hundreds of millions of dollars mainly from small- and mid-sized businesses in the United States and Europe. Bogachev, known by nicknames including "slavik" and "lucky12345," is also accused of belonging to a gang that infected tens of millions of computers, harvested financial data, and rented compromised systems to other hackers, spammers and extortionists.

What you should know: The ZeuS code Bogachev sold for several thousand dollars a kit seeded a crime ecosystem that later produced Gameover ZeuS, a botnet estimated at more than a million infected PCs used to launch DDoS attacks on victims and their banks after robberies. Most of the named Jabberzeus crew, including Bogachev, are expected to remain free as long as they stay within Russia or Ukraine, leaving the organizations they targeted without a courtroom resolution.

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