We return to an earlier interview we had with Wazawaka, a Russian hacker who, in late 2023, was added to the FBI’s Cyber Most Wanted List. Russian authorities allegedly jailed him late last week — though we saw he was back online a short time later.
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The Click Here team is taking a break from producing brand new episodes this month so we can get ahead on some reporting for 2025.
Usually on Fridays, we offer you a mic drop an extra long cut of our favorite interview of the week.
This week we thought we'd dig up something from the archives.
A rare interview.
We landed with a hacker named Wazawaka.
Allegedly Russian authorities arrested him late last week for his ransomware activities and the arrest appears to have been short lived.
He was on social media seemingly once again a free man just a short time later.
We spoke to him in late 2023, not long after the FBI had added him to America's Cyber Most Wanted list.
And at the time he told us being a most wanted wouldn't slow him down.
Take a listen.
The FBI's most wanted list is the stuff of legend.
Back in the old days, it included gangsters like Al Capone or bank robbers like John Dillinger.
Even Bonnie and Clyde, the murderous lovers who went on a three year crime spree in the 1930s before they were eventually gunned down in their car by law enforcement.
Here is Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker.
Who died as they lived by the gun.
To get that Most wanted public enemy number one designation, the person needs to be a danger to society.
Society and the FBI has to make a calculation whether all the publicity that comes with the FBI's most wanted will help the Bureau bring them to justice.
What may be less well known is that the FBI has a bunch of different kinds of most wanted lists.