FBI Offered $50,000 for a Most Wanted Malware Writer

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has spotted most wanted malware writer and offered huge rewards to extract information on cybercriminals. The news is confirmed as it was published on FBI website about all cybercriminals, telecom fraud, database hackers, and malware scam artists including this malware writer of ‘Lover Spy’ Carlos Enrique Perez-Melara. He is known to design this malware named ‘Lover Spy’ which is created to spy on suspecting husbands or wives who could be cheating on their partner. FBI has been after this malware writer for a long when a warrant was issued against him when this ‘Lover Spy’ Trojan which was developed “to catch a cheating lover" and was spread to target users via as an electronic greetings card.    

FBI has discovered that Carlos Enrique Perez-Melara has sold the virus to 1000 customers who have already distributed and infected about several thousands of users.  Though it is yet not known whether Perez-Melara is operating from the United States. Because FBI still had clues or leads since 2005 and the spyware has been considered as the complex program to be spotted eight years ago when detection and instances of such custom-written malware was sparse. For this reason, FBI has announced large prize money of $50,000 for anyone who could bring potential lead to find Carlos Enrique Perez-Melara of ‘Lover Spy’.

Similar to Carlos Enrique Perez-Melara, FBI has also offered the same $50,000 reward to extract information Andrey Nabilevich Taame, a Syrian national been accused of click fraud in 2007 and 2010, Noor Aziz Uddin and Farhan Ul Arshad, who are accused of an international fraud that deceived $50 million from victims.

However, the last reward of $100,000 has been announced for getting information on Russian Aleksey Belan who is involved in raiding customer databases of large U.S. e-commerce firms, detected in April 2013.