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FBI Offers $3 Million Reward For Russian Hacker
mpicpp sends word that the FBI and the U.S. State Department have announced the largest-ever reward for a computer hacking case. They're offering up to $3 million for information leading to the arrest of Evgeniy Bogachev, a 31-year-old Russian national. Bogachev is the alleged administrator of the GameOver Zeus botnet, estimated to have affected over a million computers, causing roughly $100 million in damages. "Bogachev has been charged by federal authorities in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with conspiracy, computer hacking, wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering... He also faces federal bank fraud conspiracy charges in Omaha, Nebraska related to his alleged involvement in an earlier variant of Zeus malware known as 'Jabber Zeus.'"
They do if you happen to be in the US, and they're just fine with your being kidnapped and brought to the US by third parties, they just can't do it themselves.
Indeed. For $3M, some bounty hunter might snatch him and take him either to America or to a 3rd country with an extradition treaty. The wanted poster even provides some helpful hints about where Bogachev likes to vacation. Mr Bogachev should watch his back.
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I think hog tying him and dumping him at the U.S. Embassy might work too. You don't think there might be a Russian or two who wouldn't mind $3M US, do you?
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In fact he's not the only one: http://www.fbi.gov/wanted
This was all covered in The Dark Knight. If someone goes to Russia and grabs this guy and drops him off at the FBI then they can charge him with whatever they like. I think that's what they're counting on.
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He can probably double the offer. Nah, as usual the government is rewarding cowardly tattletales or criminal rivals
"Yeah, we'll just helicopter into Russia... grab him..."
No need to do that. The bounty hunter can be a Russian. $3M will buy a lot of rubles. There is also no need for a helicopter. The trunk of a car will work just fine, and $3M provides enough overhead to bribe a few border guards.
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He can probably double the offer. Nah, as usual the government is rewarding cowardly tattletales or criminal rivals
Or someone already has him and this is just a way of handing them some cash for some unrelated matter, etc etc
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They want to hire him, not send him to prison. Well, or force him to work for them. You know, good American things.
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Which would accomplish what exactly? Assange is still stuck in embassy specifically because while diplomatic immunity protects him while inside the embassy grounds, there's no way to move him out without British police grabbing him.
LOL Assange is not in the US embassy. If they dropped this guy at the US embassy they would arrest him. I can't even follow your logic on thinking the two are similar.
Bogachev has been charged by federal authorities in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with conspiracy, computer hacking, wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering... He also faces federal bank fraud conspiracy charges in Omaha, Nebraska
Difference between banker and this guy: the computer hacking charges, and that he wasn't given tons of money for destroying our economy.
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The first line about Osama Bin Laden is pretty much spot on and there are quite a few others who have gotten the same treatment. The rest of the post is incendiary non-sense.
That's nice. You arrest him. And?
Many do... but not Russia, which happens to be where the guy is.
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So I guess he shared a movie online somewhere...
Spot on. As an ex-banking industry employee that dealt with these crooks, the bankers and this hacker are cut from the same clothe.
It wasn't American law that got Osama bin Laden, though.
And it took a decade.
....they just can't be caught doing it themselves...
FTFY.
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They do if you happen to be in the US, and they're just fine with your being kidnapped and brought to the US by third parties
nah, thats what CIA is for, just ask Italians
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They're Russians. They have cameras on everything.
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool.
Keeping an eye on the pubs, eh Evgeniy?
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool.
He is a Russian agent.
Conspiracy, computer hacking, wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering - that's what the NSA is charged with....hang on. That's not right. The NSA hacks Americans but is charged with nothing.
Well, let's just ask him what if feels like. Oh, wait, TFA says
"Bureau officials said they believed Bogachev was still in Russia. He could not immediately be reached for comment."
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It took a decade AFTER the Taliban told the US where Osama was! They told him exactly where he was and told them they are fine with the US getting him out.
But that would have been to easy and would not have resulted in the war that Bush's oil-buddies wanted.
FBI walks into hacker's hideout. "It's Gameover, Zeus," says the lead agent to a scrawny man sitting at a dumb terminal.
Anyone know how the FBI/others know it was him? I mean, he's been charged, presumably whilst absent, so there must be some 'damning' evidence of some sort. It's easy to say "we traced some connections to his house in Meerkovo", but how on earth did they do such a thing, and how can they be sure that it was actually him? I mean, wouldn't he have covered his tracks pretty comprehensively? I presume they (also?) found him lurking on some IRC channels or some such, but again, how would they know it was really him?
I dare say a lot of the methods they use are secret (eg. the NSA methods), but surely the principles of them must be public record if they've been used on anyone else.
I wonder what the legal precedent/process is for turning yourself in for the reward?
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More than likely this guy is already a valuable asset to said Russian mob.
There is a war going on for your mind.
I think the "Russian" part complicates the issue here.