The FBI recently updated their Most Wanted list of cyber criminals, expanding the list to include 18 different offenders with a combined reward of $4.3 million dollars. The largest bounty, $3 million, was offered for Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, responsible for the Zeus Trojan, also known as GameOver Zeus (GOZ) allegedly responsible for over one million computer infections and more than $100 million in financial losses. While Bogachev is thought to be the creator of the Zeus malware, his alleged co-conspirators (referred to as the Jabberzeus crew) who helped disseminate the software and coordinate attacks are also on the Most Wanted list and thought to be hiding in the Ukraine. A new malware building tool based on the Zeus trojan was reported to be readily available earlier this month, driving fears that entrepreneurial hackers will expand the original Zeus trojan’s capabilities to seek a profit. 

Two other notable names on the list are Bjorn Daniel Sundin and Shaileshkumar P. (Sam) Jain, with respective bounties of $20 thousand each for information leading to their arrest and conviction. They are former owners of Innovative Marketing Inc. (IMI). According to the FBI, “Jain and his co-conspirators allegedly deceived victims, through browser hijacking, multiple fraudulent scans and false error messages, into purchasing full paid versions of software products offered by their company, Innovative Marketing, Inc.” Wired called IMI the “Google of scareware, exploding over just a few years from a small group of housebound hackers into an international juggernaut, a sophisticated enterprise with hundreds of employees and offices on four continents.” And that the company “marketed its products under more than 1,000 different brands and in at least nine languages.” 

Nicolae Popescu is another high profile cyber-criminal who allegedly sold fictional vehicles and luxury items through eBay and other prominent websites. The bounty for Popsescu’s capture and prosecution is currently $1 million. Popescu was arrested in 2010 along with other alleged criminals for the aforementioned fraud. As the deadline of his detainment passed and the court had not yet ruled to extend his detention, Popescu requested to be released right at the deadline and was allowed to walk out of the courthouse.