The FBI has put on the wanted list 17 more hackers, including from Russia

The Federal Bureau of Investigations of the United States (FBI) has published a list of 3 million dollars from American banks who are wanted in the case of the theft of 3 million, which citizens of Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Kazakhstan, as well as the United States, RIA Novosti reports.

On the eve of the US Federal Prosecutor's Office for the Southern District of New York announced the assessment of 37 people, including 25 Russian citizens on suspicion of electronic fraud using the ZEUS virus, as a result of which more than $ 3 million from accounts in American banks were stolen. In addition, the prosecutor's office said that 20 people were arrested in total: 10 - on Thursday, 10 - earlier for several months. The age of the detainees is from 20 to 25 years.

The list of those wanted to have 17 people, the pictures of which are published on the site , but the photograph of one of the defendants in the case - Dmitry Saprunov - is marked with the sign of "Poin". Among the rest of the wanted 11 people were named earlier the US prosecutor's office by Russian citizens.

These are Ilya Karasev, Kristina Izvekova, Sofya Dikova, Artem Tsygankov, Artem Semenov, Julia Klepikova, Maxim Panferov, Nikolai Garafulin, Julia Spirko, Almira Rakhmatullina, Stanislav Rastorguev. In addition, five citizens of Moldova are included in this list.

"These persons, cybercriminals from Eastern Europe, are wanted on charges of committing criminal offenses of a federal scale, including money laundering, banking fraud, a passport forces, the theft of personal data in the city of New York, the New York city," the exploration of the searceps, signed by the FBI director Robert Müller.

On Friday, the FBI officially notified the Consulate General of Russia in New York for the arrest of only four citizens of the Russian Federation. According to the Vice-Consul Alexander Otochinov, this happened more than a day after the arrest, in violation of the provisions of the Vienna Convention on consular relations and the bilateral Russian-American agreement, according to which the American authorities had to inform the Russian side immediately. Izchinov also stated that the Consulate of the Russian Federation will find out if there are other detainees of the Russian Federations among other detainees.

Later, at a press conference in Washington, the Deputy Director of the FBI Gordon Snow said that as a result of joint actions of various law enforcement agencies, the US has exposed a chain of hackers, which allegedly stole $ 70 million from American banks. However, in official documents, the prosecution published by the prosecutor’s office is about the amount of 3 million.

According to Snow, 39 people were detained in the United States in this case, and the 92nd charges were charged. He clarified that arrests were also carried out in the UK and in Ukraine by law enforcement agencies of these countries.

The FBI claims that the victims were sent by e -mail messages with the Zeus Trojan virus. When opening a link or attached file in the message, this program received data on the "logins" and passwords of bank accounts of the person who was addressed to the "infected" message.

After the alleged scammers managed to access account management, money from them was transferred to specially open accounts in other banks whose names are not reported. According to representatives of the US prosecutor's office, the arrested opened hundreds of such accounts.