FBI's Most Wanted Cybercriminals
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has got millions of dollars worth of rewards waiting for those who can help them nab these accused cyber thieves, spies and fraudsters.
March 14, 2016
Falling to the touch of the long arm of the law seems to be an inevitability for most career criminals. However, the smart ones are finding that the arms-length world of cyber crime has changed the equation for how long crooks can keep it up without getting caught. The best cybercriminals are elusive and they take advantage of the ability to commit crimes half a world away from authorities tasked with protecting victims' rights.
Such is the case of the FBI's most wanted cybercriminal list. Among its ranks stand the creator of the Zeus family of malware, a spam lord accused of stealing a billion email addresses and a number of identified Chinese cyber spies. All of them seem to be scattered across the globe, many with a bounty attached to them by the U.S. government.
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Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev
Handles: "lucky12345," "slavik," "Pollingsoon"
Nationality: Russian
Age: 32
Wanted For: Creating GameOver Zeus, spurring more than $100 million in losses
Last Known Whereabouts: Anapa, Russia
Reward: $3 million
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Nicolae Popescu
Handles: "Nae," "Stoichitoiu"
Nationality: Romanian
Age: 35
Wanted For: Running fake online auction accounts that took money but never sent goods; wire fraud; identity theft
Last Known Whereabouts: Somewhere in Europe
Reward: $1 million from US Department of State's Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program
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Alexsey Belan
Aliases: Abyr Valgov
Handles: "Abyrvaig", "Fedyunya", "Magg", "M4G", "Moy.Yawik"
Nationality: Latvian
Age: 28
Wanted For: Theft of large corporate customer databases; identity theft
Last Known Whereabouts: Athens, Greece
Reward: $100,000
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Joshua Samuel Aaron
Aliases: Mike Shields
Nationality: American
Age: 31
Wanted For: Theft of corporate customer data; Internet pump-and-dump scheme
Last Known Whereabouts: Unknown; ties to Tel Aviv, Kiev, and Moscow
Reward: None
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Viet Quoc Nguyen
Aliases: Peter Nguyen, Peter Norman
Handles: Vandehiu
Nationality: Vietnamese
Age: 27
Wanted For: Theft of marketing data containing 1 billion email addresses; spam attacks using unauthorized access to systems
Last Known Whereabouts: Unknown, ties to Vietnam and the Netherlands
Reward: None
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Carlos Enrique Perez-Melara
Age: 35
Nationality: El Salvadoran
Wanted For: Developing spyware and creating criminal service around it called Lover Spy
Last Known Whereabouts: El Salvador
Reward: $50,000
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Peteris Sahurovs
Handles: "PIOTREK," "PIOTREK8," "SAGADE"
Nationality: Latvian
Age: 26
Wanted For: Malvertising and fake AV scheme resulting in more than $2 million in losses
Last Known Whereabouts: Rezekne, Latvia
Reward: $50,000
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Shaileshkumar Jain
Aliases: Sam Jain
Age: 45
Nationality: Indian
Wanted For: Fake AV scheme that scammed over $100 million from consumers in less than two years of operation
Last Known Whereabouts: Unknown; ties to Brazil, Canada, India and the Ukraine
Reward: $20,000
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Bjorn Daniel Sundin
Aliases: David Sundin
Age: 37
Nationality: Swedish
Wanted For: Fake AV scheme that scammed over $100 million from consumers in less than two years of operation
Last Known Whereabouts: Unknown; ties to Sweden and the Ukraine
Reward: $20,000
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Ivan Viktorvich Klepikov
Handles: "petr0vich," "nowhere"
Age: Unknown
Nationality: Russian
Wanted For: One of three members of a crime ring that used Zeus to capture bank account information and coordinate unauthorized transfers
Last Known Whereabouts: Russia or the Ukraine
Reward: None
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Alexey Dmitrievich Bron
Handle: "thehead"
Age: Unknown
Nationality: Russian
Wanted For: One of three members of a crime ring that used Zeus to capture bank account information and coordinate unauthorized transfers
Last Known Whereabouts: Russia or the Ukraine
Reward: None
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Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov
Handle: "tank," "father
Age: Unknown
Nationality: Russian
Wanted For: One of three members of a crime ring that used Zeus to capture bank account information and coordinate unauthorized transfers
Last Known Whereabouts: Russia or the Ukraine
Reward: None
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Sun Kailiang
Aliases: Jack Sun
Age: Unknown
Nationality: Chinese
Wanted For: One of five members of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China indicted for cyber espionage and theft of trade secrets
Last Known Whereabouts: China
Reward: None
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Huang Zhenyu
Handle: "hzy_lhx"
Age: Unknown
Wanted For: One of five members of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China indicted for cyber espionage and theft of trade secrets
Last Known Whereabouts: China
Reward: None
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Wen Xinyu
Alias: Lao Wen
Handles: "WinXYHappy," "Win_XY"
Age: Unknown
Wanted For: One of five members of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China indicted for cyber espionage and theft of trade secrets
Last Known Whereabouts: China
Reward: None
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Wang Dong
Alias: Jack Wang
Handle: "UglyGorilla"
Age: Unknown
Wanted For: One of five members of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China indicted for cyber espionage and theft of trade secrets
Last Known Whereabouts: China
Reward: None
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Gu Chunhui
Handle: "KandyGoo"
Age: Unknown
Wanted For: One of five members of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China indicted for cyber espionage and theft of trade secrets
Last Known Whereabouts: China
Reward: None
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Noor Aziz Uddin
Age: 52
Nationality: Pakistani
Wanted For: International telecommunications scheme defraiding victims of more than $50 million
Last Known Whereabouts: Saudi Arabia
Reward: $50,000
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Farhan Ul Arshad
Age: 42
Nationality: Pakistani
Wanted For: International telecommunications scheme defraiding victims of more than $50 million
Last Known Whereabouts: Malaysia
Reward: $50,000
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Farhan Ul Arshad
Age: 42
Nationality: Pakistani
Wanted For: International telecommunications scheme defraiding victims of more than $50 million
Last Known Whereabouts: Malaysia
Reward: $50,000
Falling to the touch of the long arm of the law seems to be an inevitability for most career criminals. However, the smart ones are finding that the arms-length world of cyber crime has changed the equation for how long crooks can keep it up without getting caught. The best cybercriminals are elusive and they take advantage of the ability to commit crimes half a world away from authorities tasked with protecting victims' rights.
Such is the case of the FBI's most wanted cybercriminal list. Among its ranks stand the creator of the Zeus family of malware, a spam lord accused of stealing a billion email addresses and a number of identified Chinese cyber spies. All of them seem to be scattered across the globe, many with a bounty attached to them by the U.S. government.
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