As cybercrime becomes increasingly damaging, the FBI has kept a list of "Cyber's Most Wanted."
Comprised of the most damaging cyber criminals in the world, the wanted list includes five officers from China's People's Liberation Army and ten individuals for whom the FBI is offering cash rewards.
The individuals are wanted for their roles in defrauding US citizens, companies, and government entities of money and sensitive economic information. With one major exception, these criminals were mostly motivated by greed, using the internet as a means to rip people off and steal valuable information.
The FBI's compilation of a most-wanted list came in response to the increasing sophistication of cyber-crime. In November, hackers believed to be linked to North Korea carried out one of the most debilitating attacks ever against Sony Pictures Entertainment. This hack resulted in the theft of over a terabyte of data from the company.
Chinese People's Liberation Army Hackers
Reward: Unlisted
A grand jury has indicted five members of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) on 31 criminal counts. The PLA hackers are wanted for conspiring to commit computer fraud, theft of trade secrets, damaging computers through the transmission of code and commands, economic espionage, and other counts.
The five PLA hackers were all officers in the China's Third Department of the General Staff Department of the PLA. The hackers targeted companies that were either participating in joint ventures with Chinese companies or were pursuing legal action with, or against, state-owned businesses in China.
The five hackers were the first foreign government officials to ever be specifically targeted by the US for cyber crime.
Shaileshkumar P. Jain
Reward: $20,000
Shaileshkumar P. Jain is a US citizen with ties to Swedish alleged cyber-criminal Bjorn Daniel Sundin (see next slide). Jain created an international cybercrime scheme in which users from over 60 countries purchased more than one million fraudulent software products. Jain and his co-conspirators also deceived victims through browser hijacking and multiple bogus error messages.
Jain is wanted for wire fraud, conspiracy to commit computer fraud, and computer fraud.
Bjorn Daniel Sundin
Reward: $20,000
Bjorn Daniel Sundin is a Swedish cyber criminal with ties to Ukraine and a co-conspirator alongside Shaileshkumar P. Jain. Together, Sundin helped scam internet users across 60 countries, getting them to spend more than $100 million on fraudulent software that installed malware on users' machines.
Sundin is wanted for wire fraud, conspiracy to commit computer fraud, and computer fraud.
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