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Feds Lead Biggest Botnet Takedown Ever, End Massive Clickjack Fraud

The botnet takedown announced Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice was the biggest in history, a security company says. The collection of compromised computers numbered over four million machines. Seven men — six Estonians and one Russian — were charged with 27 counts of wire fraud, money laundering and illegal computer access. The FBI shut down over 100 domain and botnet command-and-control (C&C) servers in New York City and Chicago. The malware responsible for hijacking users’ clicks came in a variety of forms.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2130087/feds-lead-biggest-botnet-takedown-ever–end-massive-clickjack-fraud.html

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