A question to anyone who went to law school (which also pertains to 'facebook' lawyers as they should be more qualified / learned) is:
What is one of the most important actions in bringing a criminal prosecution against a 'person'?
If you thought / said /muttered / belched;
the collection of evidence and documentation of 'facts' or something along those lines,
you would be on the right track, to a doctorate in law.
Well this may apply to the local constabulary, but that 'rule' does not apply to people in government especially those who have the resources of over 320 million slaves, where no one can hold them for their criminal actions.
It has been drummed into the people that drugs are bad. Yet drug (in Australia the term is pharmaceutical) companies flourish.
It has been drummed into the people that Russia is bad /evil / going to take over the world with communism etc etc.
So what does "Oh bummer" do?
He 'sanctions' a man and five others in another country on a 'belief' rather than any sort of evidence.
What [law instrument] gives YOU the authority to sanction a man in another country?
Apparently he was enrolled (does not mean he actually went to lectures) at Harvard Law School.
Are these the actions of an honest leader?
These mutts are in charge of collating and processing your metadata.
You can read the article from 14 Mar 2017 by news.com.au of the headline:
The Russian hacker with a $4 million bounty on his head
The 33-year-old is thought to be the mastermind behind arguably the most
sophisticated cybercrime network the world has ever seen. Picture:
Twitter user evgeniy mikhailovich
DRESSED in leopard-print pyjamas and
wraparound sunglasses while proudly holding up a cat, Evgeniy Bogachev
looks more like your eccentric uncle than the “most wanted cyber
criminal in the world”.
But for US intelligence agencies who have spent years pursuing the elusive Russian, that’s exactly what he is, reports
The New York Times.
The
33-year-old is thought to be the mastermind behind arguably the most
sophisticated cybercrime network the world has ever seen.
At his
height, Mr Bogachev had control of more than a million computers around
the world and was responsible for creating a network of infected
computers that he used to siphon millions of dollars from the bank
accounts of unsuspecting people and foreign businesses.
The US government has
bounty of $US3 million ($4 million) on his head for any information that leads to his capture.
In
December, the Obama administration announced sanctions against Mr.
Bogachev along with five others
in response to a belief that Russia used
cyber hacking to influence the outcome of the latest presidential
election.
It’s believed the US is currently tracking the
whereabouts of Mr Bogachev, who the FBI says also uses the online
monikers “lucky12345” and “slavik” in case he ventures outside his home
country.
But even though he has previously travelled internationally
using three fake Russian passports, it seems unlikely that he would
tempt fate by leaving Russia — a place where he appears to be protected
by Moscow.
US intelligence operative who spoke with the
Times
believe he is in cahoots with the Russian government who have happily
turned a blind eye to his larceny and cyberfraud in order to boost their
espionage capabilities.
Given his skills, the Russian government
was apparently more than happy to let him steal money from bank accounts
all over the world, while government officials piggybacked on his
hacking exploits and searched the same computers for useful files and
e-mails.
However the closest the US intelligence community has publicly come
to proving collusion of this type was when they discovered a target of a
cybercrime investigation had shared a picture of his passport with
someone they believed to be a Russian government official.
The FBI's wanted poster for the 33-year-old Russian.Source:Supplied
Mr
Bogachev’s hacking career began well over a decade ago, leading to the
creation of a malicious software program famously known as GameOver
Zeus.
It was this program that he, along with about half a dozen
associates who called themselves “The Business Club” managed to hack
into countless bank accounts and skim millions of dollars, strictly from
foreign victims.
“It is believed GOZ is responsible for more than
one million computer infections, resulting in financial losses of more
than $100 million,” the FBI says on the wanted poster for Mr Bogachev.
In 2014, a joint sting shut down the network and liberated computers infected with the malware.
The group also ran ransomware attacks in which they took control of valuable files and demanded payment for their return.
To
the considerable embarrassment of US law enforcement, one of the
victims was a police station in Massachusetts, which had to pay the
criminal syndicate to retrieve its database of mugshots.
In pictures of him circulated online, Mr Bogachev could almost be mistaken for Dr Evil from
Austin Powers. At one point during his criminal spree he owned two large villas in France and had a fleet of cars scattered around Europe.
According to the
Times,
despite a history of being intensely secret, he now lives openly in his
home town of Anapa, a run-down resort town near the Black Sea in
southern Russia, where he owns a large apartment on the shore and enjoys
taking his yacht out.
In 2014, using recently unsealed details from a US indictment, the UK’s
Telegraph travelled to his last known address in Anapa and found
he was thought of as somewhat of a hero.
When the paper told his neighbours why they were looking for him, the residents seemed impressed by his rap sheet.
“What
a talented guy,” said Mikhail, 23, who recognised Bogachev’s FBI photo
as the man he would see in the lobby with his wife and nine-year-old
daughter, the
Telegraph reported.
“Sitting at his computer at home, he broke into our enemies’ camp, but did not harm his fellow Russians,” he said.
“What
a great dude,” added Vazgen Atanasov, a taxi driver. “Judging by what
Americans do to other people, what Bogachev is said to have done to them
serves them right.”
Photo posted by Twitter user claiming to be evgeniy mikhailovich.Source:Twitter
A
large community of Russian-based hackers populate the dark web and
Russian-language forums devoted to cyberfraud where they buy and trade
credit card details and account passwords, as well as specifically
designed malware to break into people’s systems.
It’s an online
world where hackers swap secrets, malware codes and can buy a bunch of
people’s credit card information for as little as $5 and then use it to
help break into their bank accounts.
It’s also a world that has
proved very lucrative for the likes of Mr Bogachev — whose case
highlights the potential link between rogue hackers and the Russian
government.
For Russia’s surveillance-obsessed intelligence
community, Mr Bogachev’s exploits may have created an irresistible
opportunity for espionage, US officials say. And according to them, a
mutually beneficial arrangement ensued.
For its part, the FBI says it continues to pursue Mr Bogachev.
