2. Gameover Zeus (2014)
United States authorities had said in June 2014 that they were able to disrupt very sophisticated types of malware which was used to steal millions of dollars from people around the world.
Gameover Zeus botnet is network of virus that infects computers and target small businesses while Cryptolocker is malicious software which encrypt on your files and it can be used to extract ransom payments from pc owners who wanted to access their own files.
According to reports of FBI, Gameover Zeus was responsible for over $100 million losses in victims from the United States and another one million from pc worldwide had been infected since 2011.
Meanwhile, in 2013, Cryptolocker was responsible for attack to 200,000 pc, half on which is from the United States. In just first two months, $27 million were extorted from the computer victims.
One police department in Swansea, Mass, had paid ransom to cyber criminals just to have its access again to the files after the system was infected by Cryptolocker.
Another victim had lost $6.9 million dollars in a fraudulent wire transfer from bank account.
Federal prosecutors said that a gang of cyber criminals in Russia is responsible for Gameover Zeus. United States is in serious talks with Russian authorities to secure arrest but is unlikely at this time.
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