WANTED BY THE FBI st. Eugene

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St. Eugene

Hacker from Anapa Evgeny Bogachev declared wanted by the FBI for fraud and extortion of money by a botnet Gameover Zeus, among neighbors and residents of the resort town is considered to be a hero. This in his special report from the Krasnodar region reported The Telegraph .

In early June, based on the documents of the FBI, the British newspaper correspondents managed to set the address of the intended stay Bogacheva. As it turned out, his last location of US intelligence agencies believe the house number 120 on the street Lermontov.

Send to this address journalists talked with the locals and found that for most of them is a model of hacker clever and talented man.

Neighbors describe Evgeny Bogachev, as a quiet young man who loved to ride on a yacht. About Bogacheva employment in the IT sector, some of the residents knew only on sticker on his car Volvo, touting "repair of computer equipment."

Seeing his neighbor in a photo from the press release the FBI, many refused to consider him a criminal, claiming that in fact Bogachyov - the hero and the "nice guy."

According to 23-year-old local resident Michael, he often saw Eugene Bogacheva in the hallway, facing the street with his wife and 9-year-old daughter. Hacker believes talented young man and his actions on hacking other people's computers - it is moral because he hacked only "enemy computers, not their, Russian users."

The same view is shared by the journalists surveyed The Telegraph local taxi driver Vazgen Atanasov.

"Great guy." "If we consider that the Americans are doing with other people, their actions, he just pay them what they deserved. Vazgen Atanasov, a taxi driver from Anapa"

Law enforcement agencies of the spa town, apparently, is not going to take any kind of action was to catch the hacker. The representative of the local police station refused to tell The Telegraph whether he received instructions from their superiors about Eugene Bogacheva. At the same time, speaking on my own behalf, a police officer said that he "would hang on Bogacheva medal."

US authorities have put forward against Eugene Bogacheva charges of fraud, money laundering and hacking at the beginning of June. At the same time, the FBI reported that they were able to take control of the partially created Bogachyov Gameover Zeus botnet and "free" about 300 thousand were part of a computer.

This US law enforcement agencies benefited from collaboration with the Ukrainian police, seized in May in Kiev and Donetsk several command servers botnet.

Botnet Eugene Bogacheva worked on the basis of his writings Trojan Zeus, and for profit used the program Cryptolocker. With Cryptolocker hacker could encrypt files on users' computers and demand ransom for the return of access to them.

According to the FBI, once the victim Gameover Zeus became even employees of one of the police stations in Massachusetts. For unlocking their computers police moved Bogachyov $ 750. In total, income from the Gameover Zeus is estimated at US $ 100 million.

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