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 The FBI just posted the biggest ever reward for a cybercriminal. At a press conference on Tuesday, Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell announced a $3 million bounty for the man behind the Gameover Zeus botnet, Evgeniy Bogachev. The reward dwarfs last November’s $1 million reward for Nicolae Popescu, a Romanian national who set up fake online advertisements for pricey merchandise and ran off with the cash. 
 
 Jenny Shearer, a spokesperson for the FBI, said she believes it is the largest reward in history offered for a cybercriminal. 
 
 “Gameover Zeus was one of the most sophisticated and damaging botnets ever encountered,” said Caldwell. “This reward will reinvigorate the efforts to find Bogachev and encourage others to join the hunt.” 
 
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 Bogachev, operating under the handle “lucky12345” and “slavic,” ran a gang of cybercriminals based in Russia and Ukraine, orchestrating a sweeping heist that is believed to have stolen more than $100 million, according to the FBI. The software stripped passwords, account numbers and personal information to loot online banking accounts. Gameover Zeus also worked in tandem with Cryptolocker, a ransomware program that would encrypt all the files on a user’s computer, holding them hostage until the user paid up. At its peak, the FBI estimates that the program infected more than 1 million computers worldwide. 
 
 The FBI, along with private cybersecurity firms in 10 different countries, says it shut down the network last year and users who were still affected by Cryptolocker had their computers released. Bogachev is on the run and believed to be hiding in Russia. ||||| Image copyright FBI Image caption Evgeniy Bogachev was believed to be living in Russia, the FBI said 
 
 The US has offered a $3m (£1.94m) reward for information on a Russian hacker, the highest the US authorities have ever offered in a cybercrime case. 
 
 Evgeniy Bogachev was charged last year in the US with being behind a major cybercrime operation that allegedly stole more than $100m (£64.7m). 
 
 He was last seen in Russia, where he is believed to remain at large. 
 
 Arresting him may be difficult, as the US does not have an extradition treaty with Russia. 
 
 Mr Bogachev, also known as "lucky12345" and "slavik", is accused of running the GameOver Zeus attack network, thought to have infected more than one million computers. 
 
 Victims were tricked into downloading malware - malicious software - which then searched specifically for financial information. 
 
 '60 cyber-threats' 
 
 Evgeniy Bogachev was charged last year on counts including conspiracy, wire, bank and computer fraud, and money laundering, after the FBI said it broke up the network. 
 
 He is one of the FBI's most wanted cyber-criminals. 
 
 "This reward offer reaffirms the commitment of the US government to bring those who participate in organized crime to justice, whether they hide online or overseas," the US State Department said. 
 
 The reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Mr Bogachev. 
 
 The head of the FBI's cyber crime division, Joseph Demarest, said Russia's internal security agency had expressed an interest in working with the US on cybercrimes, according to Reuters, but did not link it to the Bogachev case. 
 
 He also said the agency was aware of 60 different cyber-threat groups linked to nation-states, but gave no further details. ||||| Crawl of outlinks from wikipedia.org started March, 2016. These files are currently not publicly accessible. Properties of this collection. It has been several years since the last time we did this. For this collection, several things were done: 1. Turned off duplicate detection. This collection will be complete, as there is a good chance we will share the data, and sharing data with pointers to random other collections, is a complex problem. 2. For the first time, did all the different wikis. The original runs were just against the enwiki. This one, the seed list was built from all 865 collections. ||||| Good afternoon, thank you all for joining us. 
 
 Today, we are announcing a reward for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Evgeniy Bogachev, an alleged leader of a tightly knit gang of cyber criminals based in Russia and Ukraine who were responsible for the development and operation of both the Gameover Zeus and Cryptolocker malware. 
 
 Gameover Zeus was one of the most sophisticated and damaging botnets ever encountered, infecting between 500,000 and one million computers worldwide, and causing more than $100 million in financial losses to businesses and consumers in the United States alone. 
 
 On top of that, the Cryptolocker ransomware infected more than 250,000 computers worldwide, and targeted companies big and small, as well as individuals. 
 
 In May and June 2014, we were able to wrest control of the Gameover Zeus botnet from the criminals and take Cryptolocker offline. This was thanks to an unprecedented action orchestrated by law enforcement and private sector partners in 10 different countries. 
 
 Today, due to the work of the FBI and its partners, Gameover Zeus has been neutralized and is out of the criminals’ hands and Cryptolocker remains non-operational. 
 
 But one significant part of the puzzle remains incomplete, as Bogachev remains at large. Although we were able to significantly disrupt the Gameover Zeus and Cryptolocker criminal enterprise, we have not yet brought Bogachev himself to justice. 
 
 We must not allow international borders to shield criminals from the law. As more nations join the fight against international cybercrime, the number of countries once perceived as sanctuaries is shrinking, and will continue to shrink. 
 
 In the case of Bogachev, the same international coalition that brought down his botnet is now chasing him. 
 
 We appreciate the State Department shining the light on this important case again today. This reward will reinvigorate the efforts to find Bogachev and encourage others to join the hunt. 
 
 I am confident that Bogachev will one day be caught and brought to face justice in the United States.
– The FBI is offering a record-breaking $3 million reward for information leading to the arrest of a Russian hacker accused of infecting up to a million computers with software that stole passwords and sucked at least $100 million out of bank accounts. Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, whose online aliases include "lucky12345″ and "slavic," is accused of running what the FBI calls a "tightly knit gang of cybercriminals" that created a botnet called "GameOver Zeus," Ars Technica reports. The FBI's wanted poster lists more than a dozen charges against him, including racketeering, identity theft, fraud, and money laundering. The previous biggest reward for a cybercriminal was the $1 million offered for Romanian eBay scammer Nicolae Popescu, reports Vocativ. Bogachev and his gang were also behind the "Cryptolocker" ransomware that held files on a user's computer hostage until they paid up, authorities say. "Although we were able to significantly disrupt the GameOver Zeus and Cryptolocker criminal enterprise, we have not yet brought Bogachev himself to justice," a Justice Department spokeswoman says. Bogachev is believed to still be in Russia, and even with the reward, it may be hard to arrest him because there is no extradition treaty with the US, reports the BBC. (Another hacker says he was busted after using his cat's name as his password.)