It's quite easy to understand the appeal of this approach for a cybercriminal.

Tests are performed over the Web from the cybercriminal's perspective.

"So if one account is compromised, the cybercriminal won't have access to all your accounts."

It's not the first time Microsoft has offered a reward for information leading to the capture of a cybercriminal.

"You would expect any cybercriminal who had made the decision to use an Internet cafe to pretty much dust off their fingerprints," he said.

So unless a cybercriminal has access to your phone, they can't log in, even with your ordinary password.

Indeed, purloined Social Security and credit card numbers are the new top prizes of the 21st-century cybercriminal.

They are at the cutting edge of a contemporary and emerging species of criminal offender known as a cybercriminal.

When the payment to the cybercriminal is made, the victim can download a PHP script to its computer.

That's why the balance on the cards remained the same, allowing the cybercriminal to withdraw money limited only by the amount of cash in the ATM.

If such an attack had been exploited, "a cybercriminal could have significantly disrupted NASA's spaceflight operations and stolen sensitive data," investigators said.

Since the goal of a cybercriminal is to steal financial and other personal information, clicking on a link for super-cheap tickets to the game could end up wiping out your bank account.

The trading application also allows the cybercriminal to manage FTP credential information to automatically inject IFRAME tags to web pages on the compromised server.

Jean-Loup Richet explains that cloud computing could be helpful for a cybercriminal as a way to leverage his attack - brute-forcing a password, improve the reach of a botnet, or facilitating a spamming campaign.

"If your PC is compromised with spyware or malicious software when you’re using a financial site like PayPal, then the cybercriminal has access to your computer and can access your user names and passwords," Siciliano said.

The charges brought against the prolific cybercriminal and the reward funds now available are a resulted of dedicated and hard work of FBI agents who've spent countless hours both here and abroad.