The FBI has a "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list that most people know from movies. Fewer people know it also keeps a list just for hackers: Cyber's Most Wanted . Reading it is like reading the credits of every big cybercrime story of the last fifteen years.

I go through it now and then, not because I expect to meet anyone on it, but because every name is a lesson in how real attacks are built.

The banking-malware godfather

Evgeniy Bogachev is probably the most famous face on the list. US authorities say he ran GameOver Zeus , a network of infected computers used to steal banking credentials, and helped spread CryptoLocker , one of the early ransomware hits. Losses were estimated at more than $100 million.

The US offered up to $3 million for information leading to his arrest, at the time one of the biggest rewards ever for a cyber suspect.…